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Air Combat Manoeuvres: The Technique and History of Air Fighting for Flight Simulation

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This book certainly looks nice. There are lots of full-color illustrations and little anecdotal tidbits strewn throughout. However, it lacks detailed descriptions of the maneuvers and seems rather thrown together. It only mentions when to use the various tactics in passing, and fails to go into in-depth descriptions of the application of tactics. I found it an interesting book to have sitting around, but far from the quality of In Pursuit: A Pilot's Guide to Online Air Combat.

Simply outstanding! I love the illustrations and also the text. Very easy to follow descriptions of maneuvoers as well as great text describing some of the history of air combat. It is an absolute must for folks who are into gaming or into the history of air combat.

I was concerned that this book would be too light but decided to pick it up anyway. Although it's very heavily oriented towards WWII (and the sim IL-2 in particular), it is a fun book, and I would heartily recommend it for those new to air combat and air combat tactics. Not only are the diagrams a lot easier to read than the more technical books, but it is packed with comprehensive but succinct historical context needed to understand the innovations that drove changes to air combat tactics over the years.

As far as depth is concerned, the diagrams contain more subtlety than you might suspect from the first glance. Unlike other sim books, they describe techniques used by ALL types of combat aircraft (skip bombing, night interception, etc). For dogfighting, only opening moves and "stable" situations (rolling scissors, etc) are shown in detail, after which you are left to assemble the various basic maneuvers and positional concepts (high yo-yo, max performance turn, energy management, etc) into some sort of improvised strategy.

Almost all illustrative demonstrations use WWII aircraft. Illustrations devoted to modern aircraft only occur when missiles necessitate a substantive change to tactics. The only demonstration using a WWI aircraft, for instance, is a Curtis Jenny doing stalls.

Excellent book enjoyed the small clips of history and aircraft facts. Really enjoyed the illustrations and description of the maneuvers, good book to park next to your PC.

SENSACIONAL !!!!!!!!
A mistura de simulação aérea com história dos combates aéreos dá um tempero único a este livro, super ilustrado e colorido.
Não deve faltar em nenhuma coleção.
From, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Haven't had a chance to read it yet,but with the illustrations and text,it looks like just what I was looking for.