Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide is the essential guide to the world's aircraft. It have over 500 color photographs. It contains Civilian and Military aircraft. Also, it includes technical data, recognition silhouettes and has aircraft markings identification guide.
The book is an aide memoire for individuals interested in aviation who visit airfields, airports, or air shows to assist with the identification of the aircraft they will see. It sets out to illustrate a very wide variety of aircraft and helicopters likely to be found at such locations and events around the world.
It is not a pocket-sized edition of Jane's All The World's Aircraft, however. To this end, there are no entries for the likes of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or the multitudinous variety of light general aviation, sports, or homebuilt aircraft produced in single figures, which would fill a book twice this size.
While aircraft recognition goes back almost one hundred years, it has only been practised as an "art form" since the Second World War when, with radar in its infancy, visual identification of "ours" amd "theirs" was a vital requirement for air defense.
In the UK, this skill resided, principally, in the Royal Observer Corps, which was an integral part of the RAF's reporting and control organization. In the latter years of the 20th century, its importance faded and the corps was disbanded in 1991. The fascination with aviation, however, be it civil or military, remains as strong as ever. Indeed, its popularity as an enthusiast pastime in the UK, much of continental Europe, and the United States continues unabated.
Format: Paperback (528 Pages)
Author: Gunter Endres & Michael J. Gething
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.90
