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From: lmiller@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Aviation Good Reads
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Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 23:59:55 EST
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Here's a fun one that'll keep you busy looking for the rarer planes for a
long time to come:

   A Field Guide to Airplanes of North America (How to identify over 300
   airplanes of North America: illustrations, descriptions, and
   specifications.

   by  M. R. Montgomnery & Gerald Foster
   Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1984, $12.95

   "The purpose of this book is simple: to allow anyone interested in
   aviation to *identify* the factory-built, fixed-wing aircraft seen in
   North America.  It is a field guide, not an encyclopedia or a history
   of aviation.  The organizing principle is visual, and we have made
   every effort to ensure that airplanes that resemble one another are
   grouped--if not on the same page, then withing a page or two."

This book is a lot of fun, well worth the price.  Sort of an airplane
junky's equivalent to birdwatching.

L. Miller
arpa: lmiller@ucla-locus.arpa