The Pocket Guide to Military Aircraft and the World's Airforces. . - Touch and Go - book review

Aerospace Power Journal, Spring, 2002

The Pocket Guide to Military Aircraft and the World's Airforces edited by David Donald. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. (http://www.sterpub.com/sterling.htm), 387 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10016-8810, 2001, 192 pages, $14.95.

The Pocket Guide to Military Aircraft and the World's Airforces is a fairly concise general-reference book. Although the omission of Brazil's EMB-145 airborne early warning and ground-surveillance platform is surprising, the inclusion of defunct Russian aircraft such as the AN-70, Kamov-50, and the MiG 1.42 is perhaps a greater flaw. In its 192 pages, this book presents the salient details of 125 aircraft, both fixed and rotary wing, of 79 air forces. Granted, this isn't a Jane's publication, but Pocket Guide's compactness and generally good coverage is worthy of its place on the quick-reference shelf.