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Helicopters: Military, Civilian, and Rescue Rotorcraft (Aviation Factfile)

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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.

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.

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.

Helicopters: Military, Civilian, and Rescue Rotorcraft (The Aviation Factfile) is a well layed out book. It has beautiful and detailed pictures. It has detailed text information. A must have book for the helicopter fan.