A Field Guide to Airplanes: Of North America

by M.R. Montgomery

Book Overview

Extending the principles of the famed Peterson Identification System to the man-made world, A Field Guide to Airplanes will enable you to identify virtually any plane in North America, in the air or... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395628881
• ISBN13: 9780395628881
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

great airplane spotting guide

I like everything about the book, the way the planes are organized, details in the planes to look for, etc.

Very informative

A great book full of lots of detail. I'd recommend this for anyone interested in planes.

This book is perfect for local plane spotting

This is an excellent book. I've been disappointed in other guide books that omit older planes. In my area, older planes and even biplanes are the most interesting things flying out of the small fields. It's also helpful that it doesn't try to cover the European types we just don't see here. The organizational scheme is also good. Some books try to group planes by the number engines, wing type, etc. But that approach puts huge and tiny planes in the same section. THIS book does it properly, seperating out the airliners from the private types.

A guide book about the iron birds of the sky.

This is a great book for anyone who is interested in aviation or an novice "plane-spotter". The book is set up much like (as the title says) a field guide complete with field marks for quick identification. Also a great book for getting child that is interested in airplanes. There is also a helicopter section added.

Clever, clever way to identify planes and helicopters.

A beautiful book. Greatly enjoyed by all who have read ours. For someone who is around planes a good deal such as I am, it is great fun to have such an easily carried book that is quick and easy to find the plane being discussed or looked for. Highly recommend this book.