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(More customer reviews)I have hundreds of aviation books. I was so disappointed when I got this book. 400 pages, you'd think you were getting every fact or statistic on this neat little aircraft, but no.
So what is in this book? "Each individual aircraft history starts with the Contract
Manufacturers Number, followed by the Bureau Number, Navy acceptance date, flight records, and where available, crash notes and date sent to Davis-Monthan AFB for storage." Sounds impressive? What that means is the serial number of the plane, which unit got it and the date it was retired. Perhaps 2 pages of narrative that tell you this plane was made, a few small line drawings and colors of the unit patches.
1200 photos? Yes, too small to really see and the captions just state which tail number or unit it belonged to. There is no history of the development of the plane, what pilots thought about it, how it was used, nothing. I returned this book the day I got it. Way too expensive, I do not recommend this book to anyone for any reason.
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Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Corsair II won the 1963 competition for a newattack aircraft. The A-7 design was based on the F-8 Crusader but withmany differences. Each individual aircraft history starts with the ContractManufacturers Number, followed by the Bureau Number, Navy acceptancedate, flight records, and where available, crash notes and datesent to Davis-Monthan AFB for storage. The 1,200 aircraft photographscapture the A-7 at literally every phase of its operation: starting withengineering drawings, productio, all but two of the commands thatflew the aircraft, storage, salvage, plus accidents and crashes. The 136patches represent the aircraft, air wings, commands, and squadrons.Its use by the Hellenic Air Force HAF (Greece), Portuguese Air Force,and Royal Thai Navy Division RTND are also represented.
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