Military Aircraft (Visual Encyclopedia) Paperback – April 1, 2013

I knew next to nothing about military aircraft before buying this book. My eleven year old son dreams of being a pilot and collects every book on flight or planes he can. I gave him this book for a Christmas present. He lovingly tucked it into his stash, read it in bed, and even carried it with his many Lego volumes. (That is HIGH praise right there!) I have since learned much more about military aircraft!The book is large enough to give him hours of reading. The pictures are clear and detailed. My only complaint is I wish it had a hardcover option. I see clear packaging tape or contact paper in this book's future. ;-)

Continuing his tradition of writing aviation books, Jim Winchester illustrates military aircraft with detailed artwork, specifications, and brief details in this guide, arranging them chronologically by theater or type. One aspect of this book that was lacking in Enzo Angelucci's book on military aircraft is the inclusion of the Myasishchev M-50 Bounder, but also the latest air superiority fighters built by the US and Europe and experimental VTOL aircraft. But again, this book doesn't include helicopters, even though it includes tiltrotors.

Almost like new thank you! It arrived very fast! Even before the estimated delivery time with giving estar time due to COVID19 thank you for your hard work!

All of the aircraft in this book are arranged by era, WWI, Golden Age, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam etc (my titles, not the author's) and by Country. This works much better than the alphabetical approach in other encyclopedia.The illustrations are all drawings, not photos, but they're good quality, and the text is succinct but adequate.Overall, I find it to be a useful and accessible reference book.

In many ways this book is the successor to The Rand McNally Encyclopedia Of Military Aircraft, 1914-1980 by Enzo Angelucci and provides a very good selection of brief summaries of major military aircraft. Despite the low price I found only one major error. The section of the Suez War has a Hawker Seahawk picture repeated twice rather than showing the French F-84 given in the description.

Nicely illustrated, but as another commenter mentioned all the pictures are profile views. Nothing else. Oddly, propellers are usually missing, but occasionally present.My 6-year-old loves it. I'd prefer something with a few photos to go with the drawings.

This was bought for my son who is into military history. He loved it!! Came quickly and in condition promised.

It is probably excellent, but as I am not knowledgeable in this field, I am unable to judge. Probably only for the REAL military aircraft connoisseur.

As a journalist myself I know that 'to err is human' but you can only forgive so much... This book is great to look at: just don't trust the text too much!So many of the specifications of the aircraft featured are so wrong to be laughable. Whoever subbed this book probably doesn't work in book production/journalism anymore... Shame! Pics are great...

Great summary style Encyclopaedia - lots of pictures of aircraft from different conflicts, schemes and variants. If you want detailed specifications on each plane, then perhaps not for you. I feel the sub-variant of aircraft that are pictured can not be really distinguished from earlier/latter versions in terms of tech spec..it seems they just had the basic type info and copy/pasted down. Other than that - a worthy addition, probably just aimed at those of us who like pictures more than words!!!.... ;0)

I bought this for a nine year old who absolutely loves the book

excellent condition and very happy

I got this as a present for my boyfriend who knows a lot about military aircrafts and he loved it!