| View Larger Image | Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide Fifth Edition (Jane's Recognition Guides) | Paperbackby Michael J. Gething (Author), Gunter Endres (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Harper Paperbacks | | Edition: | 5th Edition | | Page Count: | 528 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 01, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 37,591th |
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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 |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 26 reviews)
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Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide 5th Ed. by 257 (So. Cal.)  5 Stars
September 26, 2009
Book is great, really helpful. Lists the different aircraft in each of it's separate categories (commercial jet, civil utility, etc.) and they're in alphabetical order, making things easy to find. Really useful. It lists all the different models of each plane, production, specs and everything else you need to know. Great guide.
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Great Aircraft Recognition Book That Can Be Improved by aviationitemsandmore  4 Stars
January 05, 2009
This book is part of the Jane's Recognition Guide series. Other
recognition guides include: Airline, Space, Train, Vintage Aircraft,
Guns, Special Forces, Warship, Tank. Great aircraft recognition book
with the following chapters: Civil Jet Airliners; Civil Prop Airliners;
Civil Utility Aircraft; Business Jets and Turboprops; Private Light
Aircraft; Civil Helicopters; Combat Aircraft; Military Training Aircraft;
Combat Support Aircraft; Military Helicopters; Glossary of Acronyms and
Terms; International Civil Aircraft Markings; National Military Aircraft
Markings. Has a color photo of each aircraft along with information such
as: History; Accommodation; Cargo; Max Speed; Range; Dimensions;
Variants; Operators; Armament; Features. A future edition may include
aircraft such as: Kawasaki XP-1; Grumman F-14A Tomcat (Iran); AIDC AT-3
Tzu-Chiang; Canadair CL-41/CT-114 Tutor; Fouga Aerospatiale CM-170
Magister; PZL-130 Orlik; Rockwell (Boeing) T-2 Buckeye ?; DHC
(Bombardier) DHC-4A Caribou; Ilyushin IL-18/20/22 Coot ?; Bolkow
(MBB/Eurocopter) Bo 105; Boeing C-22 (B-727); Boeing C-40 Clipper; Boeing
C-32A; Boeing P-8; UH-72A Lakota; Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser; Northrop
F-5N; Boeing OC-135B; VH-71 Kestrel; Boeing 787; Ilyushin Il-28 (H-5);
MiG-17 (J-5); Xian JH-7 (FBC-1); T-6 Texan; T-28 Trojan; Harbin SH-5,
PS-5; Beriev Be-12; Beriev A-40, Be-42; Airbus A400M; An-28 Cash;
An-225 Mriya; Boeing E-4B. An idea would be to create two books from
this one-one civil aircraft and the other one military aircraft-with more
aircraft and information. Related books include: Jane's All the World's
Aircraft; Jane's Aircraft Upgrades; Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World
War I; Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II; Jane's American Fighting
Aircraft of the 20th Century; The Naval Institute Guide to World Military
Aviation; past editions of Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guides; The
Encyclopedia of Modern Aircraft (2006).
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Good pocket guide to aircraft by S. Galkin (New Jersey) 4 Stars
June 13, 2008
As the title suggests, this book may be useful to take to an airport or an airshow and identify the aircraft present at those locations. The information presented is somewhat limited, but sufficient to provide a detailed explanation on each aircraft. Each of the aircraft in this book have one page dedicated it, and the page contains color photograph or two, specifications, history and some relevant facts, as well as a three-view drawing of the aircraft, which is useful in its identification. The drawbacks I found are that not all modern aircraft are in this book (the E-2 Hawkeye is missing, for example), but overall, it is very up-to-date.
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The Essential Guide to Aircraft is... well, Essential! by Claudio Altieri (Roma, RM, Italy)  2 Stars
June 05, 2008
I really don't know what to think about this book... it seems to me that the cooperation between Jane's and the Smithsonian isn't working at all.
If I took my old (late '80 and mid '90) recognition guides or the mini-guides published by Harper-Collins in the '90 and compare these with the new revised editions of the 2000, I can't feel anything but disappointment.
The back cover says: "The essential guide to the world's aircraft".
Essential is the word here.
Graphically beautiful - the photos are outstanding nothing to say about it - but it's all.
I found more data and specs in the early pocketbooks than in this all new edition, not to talk about the booklets published by Airlife in their "Vital Guide to" series, maybe less complete in the number of specimens presented, but absolutely more satisfying from the point of view of the data presented per aircraft shown.
Seeing the steep price tag ($ 24,95 for a new copy) I'm really beginning to think about looking elsewhere to find what I need.
For the moment being, I bought also (but I'm still waiting the delivery) the original Jane's All The World Aircraft (unfortunately an old - 1990' vintage - edition `cause the most recently published are absolutely out of discussion with their prices in the $ 250+ for a used copy).
Hope this one - being a pro-guide - will be more useful.
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Excellent book for the enthusiast and serious researcher. by aviationitemsandmore 4 Stars
May 21, 2008
This book provides a photo, drawing, and basic information on about 500
aircraft currently flying. The basic information includes: History,
variants, specifications, dimensions, and features. The back of the book
provides a glossary and international civil and national military aircraft
markings. There is no index in the back. There are a few errors related
to the aircraft listed on a page and the drawing of a version other than
what is listed on that page. Since there are so many aircraft flying
worldwide, one suggestion may be to make two books from this book and add
more aircraft/information. The following is a list of aircraft that are
not mentioned in the book: Grumman C-2 Greyhound, Lockheed EP-3E
ARIES II, Augusta MH-68A Stingray, Boeing 787, Cessna 162, Mitsubishi
MU-2, Eclipse 500, MiG-17 (J-5), MiG-15 (J-2), Sukhoi Superjet 100, Su-28
Frogfoot, Antonov An-225 Mriya, Beriev Be-12 Mail, Cessna 510, Chengdu
J-10 Vigorous Dragon (F-10 Vanguard), Su-26 29 31, Xian JH-7 (FBC-1)
Flounder, Harbin Y-11 Chan, Harbin Y-12, KJ-2000 (A-50), Su-80, Il-28
(H-5) Beagle, An-22 Cock, An-28 Cash, Yak-12 Creek, Yak-50, Yak-52, Mil
Mi-4 Hound (Harbin Z-5), Curtiss C-46 Commando, An-14 Clod, etc.
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