Product Description

The essential guide to the world's aircraft

• Over 500 color photographs
• Civilian and military aircraft
• Technical data
• Recognition silhouettes
• Aircraft markings identification guide

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56879 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-01
• Released on: 2007-09-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 528 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780061346194
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
The most comprehensive guide to modern aircraft available to the general public has been completely revised to reflect major changes in the world's air forces and developments in the civil aviation business. Illustrated with line drawings, recognition silhouettes and brand new photographs.

From the Publisher
The essential guide to world aviation,Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide is the most comprehensive single volume on modern aviation. Over 500 military and civil aircraft are included, providing unrivaled coverage of every major aircraft type flying today. It includes:

• Three View Recognition Silhouettes
• Descriptive Text and Technical Data
• Over 500 Photographs.

About the Author
Michael J. Gething has been writing about military aeroplanes for over 30 years and has been a full-time journalist since 1973. Besides 17 years as a member of staff on Defence Magazine, eight of them as Editor; Michael has been Editor on Jane's Defence Upgrades. Gunter Endres is an Aviation consultant and writer publishing numerous books and articles on aspects of civil aviation. Gunter is editor for Jane's Airport Review and Airline Business amongst others as well as being a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Customer Reviews

Very good book with some ( minor ) faults
I have most previous editions of the aircraft recognition guides. I am somewhat disappointed that this one does not give any technical data other than armament and dimensions. It would be nice to have powerplants and speeds listed, preferably in miles per hour, not mach speed. Some books list one plane in mach, ie. 0.83 mach, and the next plane in miles per hour. Also in all previous guides, as in this one, there are several still very popular and numerous planes missing. For example, the Piper Comanche has never been listed ( Only the Twin Commanche ) I still see a lot of Comanches around. I would like to see these changes ,ie. more technical data and a more uniform listing of the technical data, in future guides. Besides, the previous guides had most of the technical data listed. It looks like someone took a shortcut in this book.

Respectfully yours

A compendium
...but not much more. Its principal virtue, in my opinion is its apparent toroughness; not many aircraft still in operation seem to be missing. The quality of the book is very good for a paperback: good weight of paper, well glued spine; but still a book that will suffer if carried around in the field. My version of the book does have an index, contrarily to what someone posted earlier.

IN MY OPINION, THIS IS NOT A RECOGNITION GUIDE, HOWEVER; you get one black and white photo, a few of poor quality (strongly croped, grainy or taken from an unpractical angle), silhouettes from below, front and side and a very brief technical comment. This will not allow positive discrimination between many closely resembling aircrafts.

If you really want a good companion to go in the field and practice aircraft recognition I strongly recommand the very intelligently written albeit much less complete "A Field Guide to Airplanes" by M.R. Montgomery and Gerald Foster.

Excellent quick reference guide, 500+ mil. and civ. aircraft
From the mysterious Boeing RC-135 Cobra Ball to the gargantuan An-225 Cossack, this book covers most of the aircraft you will see flying in the world today. Major sections include Combat Fighters, Recce/Patrol platforms, Transports, Airliners, Commuter, Executive, and Light Aircraft. Technical specs are great for flight-line operations on short notice.

Great photographs, and three three views. Provides information on dimensions, performance, armanment, weights, variants, and accommodations.

For the enthusiast or the flight-line ops coordinator, this handy guide will be the one you reach for first.