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Boeing 747-400: The Mega-Top (Osprey Civil Aircraft)

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This book by Robbie Shaw is a general history of the Boeing 747-400 current through 1999. The text is generally accurate, but is not especially detailed. Instead Shaw focuses on selecting beautiful color images of the 747-400 from around the world, with Asia being especially well represented.

The book will be appreciated by airliner fans, and especially fans of aviation photography. One notable and peculiar shortcoming is that there are no flight deck photographs anywhere in the book, though Shaw does pay modest attention to the flight deck upgrades in the text. Given that the two-man flight deck was the single most involved and distinguishing upgrade from the 747 classics, that seems a strange oversight. Despite this drawback, I gave the book four stars for photographic coverage of the Queen of the Boeing fleet.

The photograghs are spectacular! A very entertaining and informative book,But buy it for the photos.

The Megatop is actually a registered trademark of Singapore Airlines, which along with Cathay Pacific Airways and Japan Airlines, operate the largest fleet of Boeing 747-400s. The cover of this spectacular book shows a 747-400 owned by Cathay Pacific Airways. Since its first delivery in late 1960s, the Boeing 747 family had evolved into many variations: the 747-100, 747-200, 747-200 Freight, 747-300, 747-300 Extended Upper Deck (also known as the Bigtop), 747-SP (the shorter version), 747-400, and 747-400 Freight. In this volume, Shaw has written the indiers of this modern jetliner. The coverage features planning, development, certification, survey of operators, technical specifications, and ***PLENTY*** of pictures (both exterior and interior) of the jetliners. The pictorial also includes information of airlines operation. I personally think that the 747-400 series represents the most efficient and anesthetic piece of flying equipment. The architectual beauty of the aircraft surpasses any of its counterparts. The small flap that extend and tilt at the tip of the wings distinguish the 400 series from the rest of the family. No other models has such distinct feature and architecture. Think about how the Airbus 340, the Boeing 767, the Boeing 777-they all look alike. In this pictorial, the beauty of the Boeing 747-400 jetliner is captured in numerous pages of colored photos. I highly recommend the book for gift. Aviation enthusiasts must have.

This book gave me much info on 747's. I read this book at least an hour a day for 2 months at least. If you are in to 747-400s than buy this book! Its great.