Duck your head, and climb aboard 120 of the most important rotorcraft ever designed with former pilot and navigation instructor, Robert Jackson. In this comprehensive guide to the history and development of helicopters, Mr. Jackson delivers an authoritative A to Z catalog, from early experimental autogyros and basic designs like the Sikorsky R-4, to classics like the Bell UH-1—the "Huey"—that revolutionized military transport during the Vietnam War and the McDonnell-Douglas A1-1-64 Apache used for combat in the Balkans and Iraq. Each featured helicopter is covered in great detail, with graphic boxes outlining its development, technical specs, performance data, and more. With over 2000 color and black-and-white photographs and artwork, this fascinating history of the helicopter is a memorable flight indeed.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Best Helo ID book i've ever seen,
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This review is from: Helicopters: Military, Civilian, and Rescue Rotorcraft (Aviation Factfile) (Hardcover)
I'm a Grad Student at the University of Maryland's Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center studying Helicopters and this is without a doubt the best Helicopter fact book i have ever seen. I even showed it to one of my professors and he loved it. It is very informative with great photos and diagrams. It also is very accurate and faithful to history, which can not be said for a lot of these types of books you find.
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Buy this book!,
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This review is from: Helicopters: Military, Civilian, and Rescue Rotorcraft (Aviation Factfile) (Hardcover)
This is an excellent overview and history of helicopters.
Very good photography and graphics supplement a comprehensive text. Anyone looking for a great book on helicopters should buy this book.
17 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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Lots of pictures and lots of errors,
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This review is from: Helicopters: Military, Civilian, and Rescue Rotorcraft (Aviation Factfile) (Hardcover)
This book has many worthwhile images accompanied by a large number of significant errors and pedantic captions. There are also multiple consecutive entries for a given helicopter model, very few of which add anything to the first entry for that model.
This book suffers from extremely sloppy fact checking, incorrect technical explanations, and generally a lackadaisical treatment of a very interesting subject. There are plenty of other well researched and accurate books on helicopters available. Don't waste your time on this one.
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