Day of the Cheetah(1989)

Dale Brown

In this explosive  New York Times bestseller, Dale Brown creates a shattering scenario of the ultimate race for technology...

America’s most advanced fighter plane, DreamStar , has been hijacked. To retrieve it, Lt. Col. Patrick McLanahan takes on his most perilous assignment since The Flight of the Old Dog .
 
The odds are against him. His aircraft, the Cheetah , hasn’t the speed, the power, or the technology of the DreamStar —his skills behind the stick are the only advantage he’s got. And so begins the greatest high-flying chase of all time...