Last of the Flying Clippers: The Boeing B-314 Story (Schiffer Military/Aviation History)

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Summary: Great photos, but very poorly written and edited.
Review: Any 314 or Pan Am fanatic will undoubtedly enjoy this book for its terrific photo coverage of the aircraft. But the writing is so poor that it is hard to discern what the author is trying to say most of the time, and the editing was non-existant. It is sheer torture trying to sit down and read the text, which is a shame because the author unquestionably was in possession of a significant amount of good research material. And typical of most Schiffer books, there was not even an attempt at editing the manuscript for typos, misplaced punctuation, or other errors.

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Summary: Great history and great photos
Review: As a Flight Engineer on the B314 for three years I shudder at the thought that future aviation buffs will take this as the "bible". I think the author was drunk when he wrote about crew duties and procedures!

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Summary: Most comprehensive aircraft book ever.
Review: This is the most comprehensive book on an aircraft I have ever seen. Unfortunatly the author kills himself with querky writing ( I agree with all the comments from the gentelman from Canberra) In the first half of the book there are many glaring technical errors. The author should have had a technical person edit this book!!!! Unfortunatly this book will remain in this form for many years. I would be happy to have a dicussion with the author on this magnificent but flawed book.