Ed Cobleigh (author)

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I use the special set of skills I acquired as a combat fighter pilot and as an intelligence officer to bring my aviation/adventure books to life.

  Ed Cobleigh flew 375 combat missions in the F-4 Phantom earning two Distinguished Flying Crosses and the Air Medal. He has flown fighter planes with the US Air Force, the US Navy, the Royal Air Force, the French Air Force, and the Imperial Iranian Air Force. His log book shows time in the F-104 Starfighter, F-4 Phantom, A-4 Skyhawk, GR1/T2 Anglo-French Jaguar, and F-16 Viper. As an instructor, he taught student pilots at the USAF Fighter Weapons School, the USN Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN), and the RAF Qualified Weapons Instructor Course (Jaguar). He co-authored the USAF air-to-air tactics manual.

               Serving as an Air Intelligence Officer, he worked with the CIA, FBI, and MI6 on a variety of classified intelligence projects. He is proficient at ferreting out information and connecting dots others may have missed. Ed has visited 50 countries in various capacities, including bombing them, and he has lived in Scotland and Thailand. He also knows Paris well.

               His memoir, War for the Hell of It: A Fighter Pilot’s View of Vietnam, was a #1 Amazon bestseller. The Pilot: Fighter Planes and Paris, his literary aviation novel, gained excellent reviews and has sold well. The First Fighter Pilot-Roland Garros: The Life and Times of the Playboy Who Invented Air Combat, by Ed, was named the best new biography on WWI. He has been on the faculty of the Central Coast Writers Conference and his op/ed pieces on fighter weapons and tactics have been published in numerous journals and magazines. Cobleigh has sold over 30,000 books in three genres, 12 countries adn four languages

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