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Chargement... US Army Twin Beechespar Terry Love
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Most people think the US Army only flies helicopters, but it has quietly flown a multitude of fixed-wing aircraft for decades. One of the Army's best aircraft providers is Beech Aircraft of Wichita, Kansas. Beginning about the time of the Korean War and up to present day, the Army has utilized twin-engined Beech aircraft for an abundance of missions and duties. All of these Beech aircraft have been purchased off-the-shelf, instead of developing new aircraft for a specific mission, as they are much more economical to purchase and operate. Beeches have been used for almost every mission imaginable, from utilitarian, to VIP, to bombers, to photo-reconnaissance and surveillance to training. Some of the Beeches look really "spooky" due to their massive antenna arrays on the "reconnaissance" versions. This book will give you all of the "unclassified" details, data, information, and photos of these unique aircraft operated by the US Army. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This is a nice coffee table book and by the Amazon star rating criteria, "it's okay". What you get is a nicely illustrated book that devotes a chapter to each major model starting with the Beech 18 (C-45) and finishing with the C-12. A pleasant surprise was the chapter on the T-42 (Baron).
Within the major chapters each number/letter model gets a catalog description style paragraph devoted to it. Use by a major Army command, the Army Security Agency gets a total of two pages of print under its own chapter and a "Vietnam Service" chapter. Otherwise, If you're looking for developmental or unit/operational histories, look elsewhere. I gave the book three stars due the fact that there are little bits of technical and operational use are casually interspersed through-out some of the aircraft descriptions. That's the only thing that kept this book from going to two stars.
Also, the author doesn't really discriminate between a U-21 that had the Queen Air fuselage and King Air 90 wings and the U-21 that was essentially a King Air 200. The U-21F gets a comment about being the 1st pressurized army aircraft and no other comments. The leading particulars are just listed in a very clinical way. (