Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #523707 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 528 pages

Synopsis
Jane's international best-selling guide to the aircraft of the world. Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide is the only guide that allows the general public access to information from the world-famous Jane's All the World's Aircraft (first published in 1909), used by international aviation and military organisations and professionals. Jammed packed with up-to-the minute colour photographs and technical data to reflect developments in the aviation industry. This edition now also includes a complete list of national registration numbers and a diagram to help you find your way around any aircraft. Integral to each entry is a confusion feature to help you distinguish between similar types of aircraft making this the most comprehensive guide for any aviation fan. Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide is an invaluable piece of kit and in this popular portrait format any enthusiast should own it as standard issue. Contents Civil Jet Airliners Civil prop Airliners Business Jets and Turboprops Private Light Aircraft Civil Helicopters Combat Aircraft Military Helicopters

Customer Reviews

Where's the beef
I had looked forward to this for a long time, it was on back order and the release date kept slipping.... I had hoped for great things, at the very least a significant improvement on the first edition that has been well thumbed. Yes, it is now full of colour photos. But that is where the improvement stops in my opinion. Detail specs are now missing - no engine info and limited other details. The index is poor. Will I order the next edition before publication? - No.

Could be better
All the pictures are small and B/W, quite a few don't help recognition very much. The silhouettes are tiny, almost completely black, in some cases unclear. Few technical data, nothing about engines, power, performances.

Doesn't Do What It Says On The Tin...
Yes, it has colour pictures but.....

Sadly the original layout of separating into type (e.g. Jet, Swept Wings, rear Engines) has been abandoned in favour of alphabetical listings.

This is supposed to be a recognition guide but, unfortunately, planes don't fly over in alphabetical order - in order to identify an aircraft you now have to plough through the whole of the book on the offchance you will come across the right one.

It is no longer a recognition guide - simply a book of planes.

In a word, Pants.


EDIT - I notice that a lot of the earlier reveiws (the glowing ones - some more than 9 years ago) seem to refer to previous editions of this book - i.e. when it was still a useful guide. This seems a less than helpful to those buying the new edition!