Third edition · 456 pages

Red Eagles: America’s Secret MiGs

The definitive third edition of Steve Davies’s acclaimed history tells the complete story of CONSTANT PEG and the 4477th Red Eagles through the people who acquired, maintained and flew America’s secret Soviet fighters.

The complete programme history

The narrative begins with HAVE DOUGHNUT, HAVE DRILL and HAVE FERRY, follows the genesis of the Red Eagles, and then traces CONSTANT PEG from its improvised beginnings to a mature operational training programme and its final years.

First-hand voices throughout

Pilots and maintainers explain the aircraft, the risks and the culture of a unit that could barely acknowledge its own existence. Their testimony brings depth to the decisions, accidents, achievements and daily improvisation hidden behind a codename.

Expanded for the third edition

This edition adds research, voices and visual material gathered after the original publication. Four parts and fifteen chapters connect the early exploitation programmes, Tonopah, the three MiG families and the squadron’s operational legacy.

Buy a signed copy from the author

The 456-page softback is published independently by 10 Percent True. Signed copies are available directly from Steve Davies, alongside his two-volume history of the F-15E Strike Eagle.