The Minotaur

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author received invaluable unclassified technical advice from numerous individuals who volunteered to assist in his education. Some of them wished to remain anonymous. Those who forgot to request anonymity are: Commander Robert Day, Commander Doug Hargrave, Captain Michael E. Kearney, Fred Kleinberg, Captain Richard E. "Dick" Koehler, Captain Wayne Savage, Captain Karl Volland and Dr. Edward Walsh. The author also referred extensively to Bill Sweetman's excellent works on low-observable technology aircraft. To all of these people the author extends his thanks.

Knowledgeable readers are advised that the intricacies and eccentricities of the bureaucratic maze within the Department of Defense forced the author to take liberties within this novel in the interest of readability. Some of the mind-boggling complexities of modern military hardware have been simplified for the same reason.