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Paco Chierici

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Francesco “Paco” Chierici spent two decades flying for the U.S. Navy. On active duty he flew A-6E Intruders and F-14A Tomcats from the USS Ranger, Lincoln, Nimitz and Kitty Hawk, with deployments from Somalia to Iraq. He then spent ten years as an adversary pilot, flying the F-5 Tiger II against Navy fighter crews while working as a commercial pilot. He logged 3,000 tactical hours and nearly 400 carrier landings, and earned a Southwest Asia Service Medal with Bronze Star and three Strike/Flight Air Medals.

Today he’s an A350 captain, and he still gets his dogfighting fix in a Yak-50 over California.

He created and produced Speed & Angels, the award-winning documentary that followed two young Navy pilots through F-14 training. His writing has ...more

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Nov 02, 2026 05:34PM  ·   ·  preview book
Paco Chierici made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Combine edition + fix author: Lions of the Sky (Francesco Chierici → Paco Chierici) topic
" Hi librarians. I’m Paco Chierici, the Goodreads Author for Lions of the Sky (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...).

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“The lore of aviation was written in the blood of hubris, from Icarus forward.”
― Paco Chierici, Lions of the Sky
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Oct 30, 2026 11:35AM

Paco Chierici Paco, Lions of the Sky - it's been fun and fascinating you write the second book in this series. IMHO people are going to love this one even more than they loved Lions of the Sky!!


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