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Summary: A valuable reference for those interested in aircraft.
Review: Since this book includes data, profiles and photographs of possibly all aircraft currently in service, it is a very useful tool for those who want to identify aircraft. As an aviation professional I have often used it and recommend it strongly to anyone seeking to invest in this book.
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Summary: A good reference book
Review: The author has tried to be very judicious wth his description of the different aircraft. But colour photographs would have made the book more popular. Also some more technical information and detail about the aircraft would give more idea about them. But, the book gives a good idea about the dimensions and armament of combat aircraft. Here, the year in which it entered service should be seperately mentioned.
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Summary: Some errors
Review: The book is good. The drawings are clear and detailed, and of course there are numerous (to say the least) aircraft portrayed. The color photos are a welcome addition. There are some notable errors though:-The F-22 entry features drawings of a YF-22
-The RAH-66 Comanche is missing its vertical fins on the sides of its tailplane
-The Su-30 and -33 are portrayed as externally identical, when they are not (the -30 lacks canards most notably)
-The CAC J-10 is missing (it was only recently announced, however it was known of widely before then) While their omission was not an error, entries for the X-35 (now F-35), X-32 and A380 would have been helpful. They featured the purely experimental MFI in the 2nd edition of this guide, so why not those other very significant but still in development aircraft? Still, a great resource for aviation ID. Especially good for modelers (both the plastic and digital types).
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Summary: Some errors
Review: The book is good. The drawings are clear and detailed, and of course there are numerous (to say the least) aircraft portrayed. The color photos are a welcome addition. There are some notable errors though: -The F-22 entry features drawings of a YF-22
-The RAH-66 Comanche is missing its vertical fins on the sides of its tailplane
-The Su-30 and -33 are portrayed as externally identical, when they are not (the -30 lacks canards most notably)
-The CAC J-10 is missing (it was only recently announced, however it was known of widely before then) While their omission was not an error, entries for the X-35 (now F-35), X-32 and A380 would have been helpful. They featured the purely experimental MFI in the 2nd edition of this guide, so why not those other very significant but still in development aircraft? Still, a great resource for aviation ID. Especially good for modelers (both the plastic and digital types).
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Summary: Excellent Flightline Reference Guide
Review: This book is a no frills just the facts reference guide. It provides aircraft dimensions, weights, performance, and armament information. Photos and graphic representations assist in aircraft identification. Aircraft are logically grouped making searches for a particular airframe easy. Anyone working the flightline, and/or coordinating airshows will find this information invaluable when trying to establish parking plans.
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Summary: Great Book ! Lot of detail
Review: This book was great.It has photos, technical data andidentification features.It has fighter jets , combat support, trainers, civil jets and turboprop airliners,civil utility, privet executive and light airplanes and helicopters. This is a great price so get it here(I paid 37$).
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Summary: THIS IS A GRATE BOOK 4 U
Review: THIS GIVES U INFO ON THE AIRCRAFT BUT IT DOES NOT TELL U THE SPEED,RANGE.OTHER WISE IT IS GRAET.
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Summary: Ruined as publisher strips reference book of index
Review: What a stupid idea! A reference book without an index! HarperCollins spoiled a solid, handy reference book (an affordable distillation of Jane's venerable "All the World's Aircraft"). This is only one of many useful features the big-time publisher has cut. So now I have to keep two editions of this book nearby. I turn first to the last edition published by Jane's on its own. If I can't find what I want because it's too new, I pick up this we're-only-in-it-for-the-money version and fumble my way through the table of contents -- looking and looking and looking. Whoever at HarperCollins decided to delete the index as a needless frill is probably an idiot. He or she is certainly not an airplane lover -- nor a book lover. (Alas, this bean-counter has probably been promoted.) Anyone truly interested in identifying airplanes and helicopters that one is acutally likely to see in North America might want to consider "A Field Guide to Airplanes" by M.R. Montgomery and Gerald Foster. It has less techie data than Jane's. But it takes an interesting approach. It uses the approach of the Peterson bird books, focusing on the distinctive features that really help you spot these "birds" in the air. And it concentrates on the most common aircraft, not the exotic. Jane's is still good. I just wish HarperCollins hadn't debased it.
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