A concise, highly detailed and superbly illustrated reference work to the most important combat aircraft in operation throughout the world today. With detailed text, full program and service details, plus complete type specifications, this volume provides the key data for well over 100 military aircraft in front-line service worldwide.
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Rob Hewson has been a photographer, magazine editor, and author on aviation topics for many years. He produced "The Vital Guide to Commercial Aircraft and Airliners" and, with Gunter Endres, "The Vital Guide to Major Airlines of the World."
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3.0 out of 5 stars
It is an okay book, good value for the price.,
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This review is from: The Vital Guide to Military Aircraft: The World's Major Warplanes (Hardcover)
This is a concise book describing more than 100 military aircraft from all over the world, including helicopters. One page is devoted to each aircraft, with 2 color pictures and lots of information. The planes are arranged in alphabetical order of the names of the manufacturers, regardless of country of origin. Books this size are supposed to be visual guides, the kind you want to take with you to air shows. I feel that the planes should be grouped by shape and size, so that you can compare similar planes easily. In this book, if you want to compare F14 and F15, you have to look under Northrop Grumman for F14 and Boeing for F15.
With so many books on aircraft out there, you probably can buy a better book than this. However, in view of the low prices, especially for used copies, I recommend it for casual readers.
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frontal aviation, bomb wing, maximum level speed, maximum ordnance, maritime attack aircraft, main rotor diameter, empty equipped, excluding probe, underwing hardpoints, operating empty, western avionics, hovering ceiling, combat radius, cannon pod, service ceiling, demonstrator aircraft, prototype first flew, ferry range, refuelling probe, uprated engines, digital cockpit, new avionics, tandem cockpits, cockpit systems, underwing pylons Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
General Electric, Saudi Arabia, Lockheed Martin, South Africa, Marine Corps, Sea King, United States Boeing, Alpha Jet, Sea Harrier, Soviet Union, South Korea, Abu Dhabi, Royal Navy, Dassault Mirage, British Aerospace, North Korea, Super Hornet, United Kingdom, Ching Kuo, Russia Sukhoi, Operation Allied Force, Gulf War, General Dynamics, Kiowa Warriors, Czech Republic Browse Sample Pages:
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frontal aviation, bomb wing, maximum level speed, maximum ordnance, maritime attack aircraft, main rotor diameter, empty equipped, excluding probe, underwing hardpoints, operating empty, western avionics, hovering ceiling, combat radius, cannon pod, service ceiling, demonstrator aircraft, prototype first flew, ferry range, refuelling probe, uprated engines, digital cockpit, new avionics, tandem cockpits, cockpit systems, underwing pylons Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
General Electric, Saudi Arabia, Lockheed Martin, South Africa, Marine Corps, Sea King, United States Boeing, Alpha Jet, Sea Harrier, Soviet Union, South Korea, Abu Dhabi, Royal Navy, Dassault Mirage, British Aerospace, North Korea, Super Hornet, United Kingdom, Ching Kuo, Russia Sukhoi, Operation Allied Force, Gulf War, General Dynamics, Kiowa Warriors, Czech Republic Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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