Reviews for Unmanned Air Vehicles

The average rating for Unmanned Air Vehicles based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-07-09 00:00:00 Nadeem Muaddi Hurricane - The Illustrated History tells the story of the development and operational use of the Hawker Hurricane, supported by a large number of illustrations. Unfortunately, ii is marred by a number of questionable statements in the text as well as appalling caption errors on some of the illustrations. This is particularly annoying as the illustrations themselves are mostly well chosen, apart from one that is not of Hurricanes at all despite the caption stating otherwise. The text varies a lot - the technical stuff about Hurricanes is fine in itself, but the historical background details that place operational use in context is questionable at times with some terrible mistakes in the description of warfare in the Mediterranean and North Africa. I find this difficult to reconcile with the seemingly impeccable aviation credentials of the author, and also in the light of having read and enjoyed others of his works. Not recommended, there are other much better books on this subject.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-12-21 00:00:00 Charles Hillyer the first half of this book covers the development of the zero. technical goals all achieved by japanese engineers, advancing in many ways over the models of germans, british, americans, russians- have to take this on faith but the numbers are impressive. it is a very japanese book, praising mechanics, builders, even pilots, as particularly japanese values… second half of the book covers ww2 in the pacific, starting with the war in china before the attack on pearl harbour. this is a japanese book and suggests the attack was necessary, that the us, the british, even the dutch, were threatening, were supplying the chinese, were intractable in demands. this may be the japanese history line, do not know, but there is a consistency in ideology and occasional expressions- the attack was glorious, the japanese resisted valiantly, the eventual development of kamikaze human bombs etc… review continues: