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Title: Lockheed C-130 Hercules: The World's Favourite Military Transport by Peter C. Smith ISBN: 1-84037-197-8 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Another Profile Book
Comment: This is another airplane profile book, with a lot of pictures and little substance. Why is it that aviation writers have the idea that the people who buy their books can't read, but like to look at pictures? However, if you want a profile book, this is the one to have. It has the best information related to the various models of the airplane. But if you want to find out what C-130s have done, look somewhere else.
Sam McGowan
C-130/Vietnam Veteran, author "The Cave", a novel of the Vietnam War.
Rating: 3
Summary: Can you judge a book by it's picture captions?
Comment: After picking up Mr Smith's latest work titled after an airplane that I spent most of my 20yrs in the military on or working with I was pretty excited. I saw pictures inside that I hadn't seen before and a format that I enjoyed.
Then, I started reading the captions under the pictures. Bare in mind I have read a mistake or two in books I liked and they did little to distract from the overall impression of what was published but I kept finding more and more mistakes I felt something was wrong. Please, perhaps Mr Smith was not aware these were mistakes and took face value what someone told him. An example of such a mistake is page 52, which we are told is an aircraft that crashed in 1969 in a paint scheme not used until the late 80's, early 90's. Page 57 is captioned as a JC-130B, when in fact it is a EC-130H.
Perhaps the facts outside the pictures are more acurate but I would invite other aviation enthusiasts to check more closely before purchasing this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: New Concept
Comment: This is a very interesting book about an exceptional airplane. So many books have been written about the C-130, both the military and commercial versions, that it's difficult to come up with a new way of doing it. Mr. Smith has done just that. He covers every single variant of the airplane and freely uses the msn (manufacturer's serial number) of particular Hercs; a feature missing from most other books about this airplane. Although there are quite a few errors in the background of some of the many different models and the companies operating the commercial models, a redeeming factor is the many, never before published photos. In a book of this magnitude, it's almost impossible to have it 100% correct. A must for any Herc enthusiast.
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Title: Lock On No.3 : Lockheed C-130 Hercules by Francois Verlinden ISBN: 9070932083 Publisher: Verlinden Productions, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 November, 1986 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The C-130 Hercules by Jan Goldberg ISBN: 0823938735 Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.50 |
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Title: Lockheed C-130 Hercules by Martin W. Bowman ISBN: 1861262051 Publisher: Crowood Press (UK) Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $52.95 |
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Title: Lockheed C-130 Hercules and Its Variants by Chris Reed ISBN: 0764307223 Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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