Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #428020 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.

Good for basics
This is first ever Jane's recognition book I own myself. I have been keen on aviation since I was a kid, and read my aircraft recognition knowledge from many different books and other sources. Now, I have found that new version of Jane's recognition book has been very handy. I can take it with me where ever I go and when I am hesitating on plane types, I just see this book. It does not give absolute knowledge of all details between all variants and models, but covers well enough all necessary flying vehicles. Now I work for KFOR and there has been even more use for the book, it covers military aircraft very well and so far I haven't found a single aircraft that has not been in the book. In most cases, it even has enough details to recognise small details between, for example, military helicopters, which are here very common, and differences between civil and military versions.

Only thing I miss, is to have a better glossary and possibility to find aircraft types quickly by sorting them by amount of engines, props etc.

This book is excellent for basics, but if you wish to be able to recognise all variants of some model, then I recommend something else. I doubt if there is any book that would give perfect data for spotting every variant of every model, that book would just be too heavy to take anywhere!