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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.7464
EAN num: 9780933424661
ISBN number: 0933424663
Label: Specialty Press
Manufacturer: Specialty Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 100
Printing Date: October 25, 1996
Publishing house: Specialty Press
Sale Popularity Level: 453990
Studio: Specialty Press
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Filled with vintage photos of North American's legendary F-86 Sabre from assembly line to flight line, plus exploded views, cutaway and phantom drawings from tech manuals, disassembled aircraft, rare variants, experimental models, camouflage markings, armament configurations and more. WarbirdTech 3.
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I am a confessed Sabre nut, and have had a love affair with the F-86 since I was a kid growing up in the '50s. I was pleasantly surprised at the detail in this book.
In the limited space available in 100 pages, WT relates the development of the day fighter versions of the airplane (The XP-86, F-86, A, E, F and H models. The interceptor versions are not covered) from its beginnings as a "jet powered P-51", a straight wing relative to the Navy's FJ-1, to the end of its service life with the Air Guard. WT does a terrific job of describing the evolution of the airplane, including an excellent review of the "6-3" wing conversion on the "F" model.
The book contains lotsa interesting details along with some neat "gee whiz" info, including pilot and maintenance manual drawings and photos that are interesting, but often not fully explained, and sometimes these diagrams leave as many questions as they provide explanations.
Disappointing in the Warbird Tech editions I have purchased is the paucity of colour photos (in this edition, only four pages with 11 small pics, only two of which are USAF Korean war era airplanes)... and the choice of an off-white, coarse grained paper for the rest of the book, which causes the numerous b & w photos and drawings to die on the page. I think WT is grossly inferior to other publications in this area, and the paper choice is difficult to understand with [the] price tag.
The bottom line for this publication is that the information is very interesting and if you can get past the crummy paper selection and lack of colour photos, you'll be pleased.
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