Visual Encyclopedia Military Aircraft

by Jim Winchester

This book provides a fascinating at a glance guide to every major military aircraft type ever flown, all illustrated with a detailed profile artwork, accompanied by details and specifications listing dimensions, powerplant, weights, armament, and performance. Arranged chronologically by type or theatre to allow easy comparison, like each title in the Visual Encyclopedia series, each featured aircraft or variant in this book is illustrated with an excellent full color artwork, showing in great detail its characteristics and markings, and completed with an informative caption. Many aircraft are illustrated in profile, and others in a three quarter view. This book features all of the most famous aircraft from around the world, such as the Supermarine Spitfire, Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, North American Aviation F-86 Sabre, and McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom. With over 1000 outstanding color illustrations and photographs, this is an authoritatively researched book that celebrates the many diverse designs of more than a century of military aviation.

Genres: Aviation, Military Fiction, Reference, Nonfiction

448 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Larry · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book Military Aircrafts: Visual Encyclopedia. Is a very, very interesting book you can learn so much things from this book. Although most of the planes are hard to find since they are not scattered, but actually just not seen that much. The book shows every major Dog Fight or at least the majority of the Dog Fights, Dog Fights are just plane fights in the sky nothing special about it. The planes in this book range from the very first Scout plane, which was the first plane used in the Military, to the last plane ever built. You can learn many, many interesting facts from this book; like that the first plane used in war was from Britain. Overall I give this book an 8 out of 10, I really like this book.

[Dylan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is quite comprehensive in its scale and includes many aircraft of various roles and nations as well as superb illustrations which really help you picture the planes. That said I do have some issues with this book as some pages have repeat aircraft due to the author sometimes going by battle instead of by plane/model. Also some of the blurbs are just telling you what squadrons markings are on the illustration or who flew the particular plane and not actually about the plane. This would be fine if their were multiple blurbs on same plane on that page but sometimes it will be some of the only information on that model of the aircraft. Overall enjoyable and knowledgeable for those interested in military aviation equipment and/or military aviation history.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful illustrations of each plane along with a description on who built the plane, history behind it, and its specifications.