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A-7 Corsair II in Action - Aircraft No. 120

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The 'In Action" series fills a special niche for the aviation enthusiast. They represent an affordable, if basic look at an aircraft with good illustrations and a good coverage of development and model designations.

This is usually 'held together' with an accompanying narrative of the aircraft in operational use. Not so this one. Reference to its operational use in the 1970s is almost absent. ODS gets a one page montage, belying its 1991 publication date. That was twenty years ago.

A fine presentation showing its age.

"SLUF" Short, Little, Ulgy, Fellow - polite version. In 1963, the Navy wanted a replacement for the A-4 Skyhawk. The A-7 Corsair II was a shortened subsonic version of the famous F-8 Crusader fighter. The Corsair II could carry 7 tons of bombs.

1,500 of these planes were built from 1965 to 1984. This book was published in 1992, so it does mention use in the First Gulf war and show the desert paint scheme used by one of the naval squadrons. The plane was being phased out in the early 1990's.

The winning format of the "In Action" series is used - 48 pages of narrative, plenty of line drawings, black & white photos with 2 pages of color plates to show the colors used over the years.

A great book for modelers, aviation fans who want to learn more about a very popular navy close support bomber. The A-7 may not have been a 'pretty' plane, but it was very effective. I enjoyed this book which is packed with a lot of data about the plane, the weapons and avionics developed over the years.