American Warplanes: A Full-Color Technical Directory of 200 of the Most Important Combat Aircraft to Serve the United States

By Bill Gunston

Book Overview

American Warplanes is a full-color technical directory of the most important combat aircraft to serve the United States. This book chronicles the development of most of them - from the Wright Flyers of the early 1900's to the AV-8B serving today's Marine Corps. It is a magnificent tribute to more than 200 combat aircraft to have seen service, each of them illustrated with a detailed three-view line drawing and a photograph, usually in color and often appearing in a book for the first time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076519211X
• ISBN13: 9780765192110
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Smithmark Pub
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.3" x 1.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Good book with plenty of illustrations

This is a great book for people interested in military aviation. It is full of technical and colored illustrations of all types of aircraft from World War I until today. It's a great read.

A very good book on american warplanes

This book includes inof on every american warplane from the wright military flyer to the Harrier jump-jet. Also includes at least one photo of every warplane (The book says most of them were not published before) plus diagrams on all the aircraft, weapons, engines, speeds, weights, types, and history (First fligths, retirements, e.t.c). A very good book for the study of warplanes. My only problem is there's no F-117, F-22, or B-2 in this book. Then again, this book was published before those aircraft were declassified. Looks like a job for: A Reprint!

Great reference

I couldn't begin to count the number of times we've used this book to find information on a particular aircraft. And, I can't remember ever being disappointed. The book is packed with information on American military aircraft. At a minimum, each entry includes at least one picture, sketches of several silhouette views, information on the aircraft's dimensions, weight, available armament configurations and the aircraft's history, including dates of service. I can't imagine a better reference book.