The folks at RAF-in-Combat.com have continued with their series of  books concentrating on USN aircraft types from 1922 until 1962. This time frame basically covers the old style of aircraft designations that was used by the Navy for forty years until the system was unified in 1962. This review edition is the printed version, with a .pdf version also available. 

This volume continues with the full round of "B" aircraft, with a nice mixture of pre-war types such as the BF2C and then moving into the BT (Bomber Torpedo) section, which is mostly late war aircraft. Some familiar planes are in this as they were prototyped in the BT class before moving into the A class after WWII. It then starts into the F section beginning with the XFA-1 before getting to the F2A and other Brewster planes. The FB series from Boeing concludes the fighter section until the next volume.

Each of the entries covers an explanation of all the letters and numbers in the type's nomenclature as well as the number built and the serial numbers of those planes. Variants each have their own section so ou will find, for instance, a section on the XF2A-1 and another on the production F2A-1 as well as other versions of the same basic airframe. Each section has a very nice selection of photographs, all of them fairly large and many of them in color.

It is a superbly researched and developed book and I am positive you will find it as interesting a read as did I. Highly recommended.

February 2016.

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