The novelization of the movie was pretty good, except for when it came to the flight scenes. Unfortunately, in this area the book was seriously lacking, as Cogan had the pilots dog fighting past the sound barrier, pulling right-angle turns, and he kept mis-labling and incorrectly titling aircraft. At one point, for three pages, he has Jester flying an A-5. No such creature exists. He has the pilot call their aircraft F Fourteens or F Fives, they are F-14s and F-5s. The missiles are also wrong. He calls one the A 1 M9S Sidewinder. The sidewinder is the AIM-9S. Other than these things that make it obvious Cogan was never a pilot, the book is very good every time they are on the ground.