Book Review of
Boeing 747
Author: Lance Cole
Pen & Sword Books Flightcraft Series
ISBN: 9781526760029
By Ray Mehlberger
Copyright: 2021
MSRP: $24.95
ISBN: 9781526760029
By Ray Mehlberger
Copyright: 2021
MSRP: $24.95
HISTORY:
Boeing’s 747 – the defining “Jumbo Jet”, has achieved a fifty-year reign of the airways, but now airlines are retiring their fleets as a different type of long-range airliner emerges. Yet the ultimate development of the 747, the 800 model, will ply te airways for many years to come.
The 747 will also continue in its unique cargo-operations. The 747 was an aircraft that had a global effect, it sold over 1,500 airframes and also transformed big jet technology and created a new wide-body era. From the 747-100, SP, 200SP and 300, to the digitized -400, the 747 was the mainstay of global airline experience.
Today’s 747-800 proved that yesterday’s technology was so good, it could still be repurposed to great effect, The 747 was also put to military use as the VC25 and E4 variants. Air Force One is of course a blue Boeing 747.
The book is written by an experienced aviation journalist, with 747 operations knowledge, Lance Cole This new book provides a detailed , engaging commentary on the design, engineering and the operating life of civil airliners greatest subsonic achievements – Boeing’s three magic numbers – 747.
Specially commissioned colour illustrations featuring 24 individual aircraft, with their unique color schemes and markings, and 90+ contemporary colour photographs are in the book.
An informative history of the Boeing 747, its inception, design, development and career as a commercial transport aircraft is given in this book.
Scores of colour photographs of model kits in all the available scales, with informative kit write-ups is included. Showcase models with detailed build analysis is given.
This is a neat book on the Boeing 747. It will be of great interest to modelers planning on building a 747 and to aircraft enthusiasts alike.
I sincerely wish to thank Casemate Publishers for this review sample. Casemate is the North American distributor of Pen & Sword Books and all their titles can be viewed on Casemate’s website at:
Boeing’s 747 – the defining “Jumbo Jet”, has achieved a fifty-year reign of the airways, but now airlines are retiring their fleets as a different type of long-range airliner emerges. Yet the ultimate development of the 747, the 800 model, will ply te airways for many years to come.
The 747 will also continue in its unique cargo-operations. The 747 was an aircraft that had a global effect, it sold over 1,500 airframes and also transformed big jet technology and created a new wide-body era. From the 747-100, SP, 200SP and 300, to the digitized -400, the 747 was the mainstay of global airline experience.
Today’s 747-800 proved that yesterday’s technology was so good, it could still be repurposed to great effect, The 747 was also put to military use as the VC25 and E4 variants. Air Force One is of course a blue Boeing 747.
The book is written by an experienced aviation journalist, with 747 operations knowledge, Lance Cole This new book provides a detailed , engaging commentary on the design, engineering and the operating life of civil airliners greatest subsonic achievements – Boeing’s three magic numbers – 747.
Specially commissioned colour illustrations featuring 24 individual aircraft, with their unique color schemes and markings, and 90+ contemporary colour photographs are in the book.
An informative history of the Boeing 747, its inception, design, development and career as a commercial transport aircraft is given in this book.
Scores of colour photographs of model kits in all the available scales, with informative kit write-ups is included. Showcase models with detailed build analysis is given.
This is a neat book on the Boeing 747. It will be of great interest to modelers planning on building a 747 and to aircraft enthusiasts alike.
I sincerely wish to thank Casemate Publishers for this review sample. Casemate is the North American distributor of Pen & Sword Books and all their titles can be viewed on Casemate’s website at:
Highly recommended.