Characteristics:

Format 21 X 24cm, soft cover, 168 pages, English text, 720 pictures , 1/72, 1/48scale drawings, + dashboards/consoles drawings.

 With an impressive front cover picture which give well justice to the mighty and legendary Tomcat from Grumman, star of the Top Gun movie, DACO signs with this third title a superb work, I could say really  THE photographic monument on an airplane which start to quit the scene of the USN and carrier deck.  Although it had already been treated since here beginning in service, this is the more completed approach regarding details published to this day, as no areas will be left aside.  According to a proven method, one will start with an external walkaround followed by the interiors of the beast with a return on some zones uncovered during repair stages and not very visible habitually. In the order you’ll discover  the radome, the radar, the access ladders, the probes and vents, the refuelling probe, the canopy, the air intakes, the missiles rails, the top fuselage (really dirty), the spoilers, vertical tail and stabs, the airbrakes (opened and closed), the two motorization types, the tanks, the engine panels. The interior of the cockpits contains 148 photos on 33 pages, (with and without seats, to see the invisible areas).  And one continues joyously with the gears and their bays, the catapulting system, the folding wing system, the engine nacelles and avionics bays. Still remain the armament with the M61A1canon and the whole panoply of missiles and other charges. Some views in operations, in flight and in action on the decks break this mass of details. To finish, very good 1/72 and 1/48 scale drawings are inserted, with the details of each type pointed on dashboards and consoles. You can buy this book with your eyes closed, you’ll not regret it .

May 2006

Available at :   http://ultra.glo.be/daco/

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