Boeing 737 (Crowood Aviation Series) [Hardcover]

Malcolm L. Hill (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1861264046 | ISBN-13: 978-1861264046 | Publication Date: July 2002

Charts the rise of Boeing's best-selling product, examing the interwoven history of the aircraft company and its airline customers and how they came to the 737. Its continued development, taking on the new technogical advances available and Boeing's reaction to a revived European threat is studied. The aircraft's progress through turbulent political and commercial times is followed, as is the 737's own operational history and its own undoubted influence in the constantly changing airliner industry of the last quarter of the twentieth century and beyond.

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About the Author

Malcolm L Hill's interest in commercial aviation stems from his early years, growing up under the busy take-off path from London's Heathrow Airport. He has been a regular contributor to the US based Airliners magazine since 1995. He is the author of BAC One-Eleven [Crowood 1999]

Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: Crowood (July 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861264046
• ISBN-13: 978-1861264046
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,786,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An Average Book On The 737, May 26, 2005

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This review is from: Boeing 737 (Crowood Aviation Series) (Hardcover)

This is a nice looking, well illustrated, book on the 737 from England. It is fairly comprehensive, although there are some errors in the text. Having said that, the errors are not particularly egregious, and would not be readily apparent (or significant in a meaningful way) to the average reader (I am an airline pilot who had to fly the 737 for about two years, and admittedly strongly prefer flying competing products.)

Overall, this is one of the nicer books on the 737 available, but I gave it three stars because of the aforementioned minor errors, and the fact that I don't really think it is a very good value, as it is rather expensive for what you get. Even though there are inaccuracies in the MBI books by Sharpe and Shaw (in two volumes) as well, they are readily available, have roughly equivalent coverage, and are available at a much better price for what you get. The volume on the 737-100 and -200 is the better of the two books in the MBI series by Sharpe and Shaw.