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Summary: Good Reference as far as it goes...
Review: Good coverage of American, British, and German engines - the rest get little (Russian/French) or none (Japanese).The lack of detail on the R-3550 is a disappointment.
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Summary: Incredible errors ruin a good idea for an interesting book
Review: I had looked forward to the arrival of this book for several months. On examination it has so many major factual errors that it cannot be taken seriously even as light reading. I simply cannot understand how a book this shoddy could be published. The erroneous information is easily researchable in many reference texts and on the internet. The author, editor and publisher should be ashamed of this substandard publication.
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Summary: Seems like just a cut-n-paste of other people's work
Review: This book is really just a collection of small articles, taken largely verbatim from other sources. Little or no effort was made to edit them into a consistant whole. For instance, the article on the BMW 801 appears to be three other articles placed back to back. One of these is only two paragraphs long, and appears to have been clipped from a book on the FW 190. The result is that you read the same tidbits over and over, at the top of the page it says the fan ran at 3.2, then a few paragraphs down it says 3.18, and then at the bottom, 3.2 again. Bleah. I really can't recommend this book. I would suggest A History of Aircraft Piston Engines over this any day.
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