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Firstly, this is a properly put together book. After discarding the cheapening effect of the glossy cover sleeve, within is a real cloth hard-bound book, full of shiny pages. There are no artful empty spaces, nearly all of the pages are full to the brim with photos, text and line profiles of the many experimental ‘planes that the Soviets created over the last century, and a lot of them are eye-openers. Invention! The only drawback to a lot of the photos is the fact that,unlike today, the Russians appear never to have possessed a decent optical industry, and there are comparatively few of the bitingly sharp and crisp B/W pictures, going back to the first world war, that we have come to expect when reviewing our own history of flight. Most of the post WWII pic’s, though, are quite good. There is a good jets-era colour photo section at the back of the book captioned only for reference.
The text is by the tireless Bill Gunston, detailed, and as usual by this most gifted of writers on aviation, to lift the relentlessness of technical detail, anecdotal. This means that ‘Soviet X-Planes’ is not only readable but is enjoyable to read.
