MISSION READY is a coffee table book about a world that’s not accessible to most of us.
From 2016 to 2021, I was granted access to several restricted military airbases and experienced first-hand what it takes to be a fighter pilot during a training mission in an F-15 Eagle.
MISSION READY gives a realistic and uncensored insight into the “Best Fighter Squadron of the U.S. Air Force”. Through compelling images, I offer an insider perspective of the legendary 493rd Fighter Squadron’s daily operations. The contemporary photography is never shy of demystifying a sometimes romanticized world, yet always with an aesthetic point of view.
This is not Top Gun. This is better. This is real.
Photography Patrick van Dam
From 2016 to 2021, I was granted access to several restricted military airbases and experienced first-hand what it takes to be a fighter pilot during a training mission in an F-15 Eagle.
MISSION READY gives a realistic and uncensored insight into the “Best Fighter Squadron of the U.S. Air Force”. Through compelling images, I offer an insider perspective of the legendary 493rd Fighter Squadron’s daily operations. The contemporary photography is never shy of demystifying a sometimes romanticized world, yet always with an aesthetic point of view.
This is not Top Gun. This is better. This is real.
Photography Patrick van Dam
Design Patrick van Dam, Sybren Kuiper
Clothbound in protective slipcase
232 pages
23 cm x 30 cm
110 photographs
Published 2022
ISBN 978-94-64373-88-2
First edition 1,000 copies
For more info www.missionready-thebook.com
