Yes ... I love it too ;D ... but if You are interested in some projects You "had no idea before, lots of colour photos, line draw profiles" ... then wait for (hopefully) one of the next IAPR issues or at lesta until then here:
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1641.60.html
By the way here's the list I promised to do of the most severe / grave mistakes and errors in the fighter-chapters of this altogether quite valuable book:
- p. 16 not WS-10A but a Pratt & Whitney F100
- p. 23 J-2 = MiG-15bis WRONG: J-2 is a wrong number used in the West … strangely JJ-2 maybe correct as a follow on number to the Shenyang JJ-1
- p. 36 J-6C is also a wrong western designation; in China J-6Bing with the ASCI-code Farmer-C so it became J-6C
- p. 47 DF-104/-107: latest reports say that the small table model is in fact the DF-104 (= the small F-5-look alike) and the DF-107 is always described as a larger developed, twin engined version of the 104 with variable-incidence wing … DF-107A was later a redesigned proposal to rescue it from cancellation
- p. 55 picture is just a model of the F-7P and not the prototype
- p. 57 there is no JZ-7 recce-version
- p. 59ff in all profiles and side drawings following the J-7D the wider upper part of the rudder is missing
- p. 64 F-7X is a FAKED what if made by LEGO (an almost famous CG-artist between 2000-2002)
- p. 65 picture and profile of “blue” J-7G is wrong and only because of a very dark picture which has been altered / changed colors to show more details … so the grey looks bluish
- p. 65/66 red Olympic J-7Gb is a FAKE
- p. 69 (printing errors in the J-7G 3-side
- p. 86/87 some J-8II’s profiles with strangely shaped noses (printing errors ??)
- p. 88/89 beautiful side drawings but only the F and H versions do have these “stripes” on the radome, the D and B-02 not, but C has … some EW-details missing between the versions
- p. 96 Text: “officially admitted” a transfer of the Lavi-documents to CAC ??? … only a rumor in a Russian forum
- p. 96 not no. 02 prototype but one of the early pre-serials
- p. 97 FAKED / PSed picture of no. 1004 or 1005 (not sure) to 1001 with CFT’s, LGB’s, target designator …
- p. 100 side drawings … all the different tails and engine details are missing or wrong
- p. 101 several mistakes: FAKED / PSed picture of a pre-serial with 4 PL-12 (two on chin-intake pylons) … later PL-9 is wrong, it’s a PL-8 training round
- p. 102/103 bottom: no. 27 naval machine is based on a CG made by “Songbird” … which itself is based on a PSed picture … otherwise the grays are too different / too dark for no. 13
- p. 105 J-11/ Su-27 + Flanker … nearly nothing !
- p. 108 FC-1 has not the KLJ-10 but the KLJ-7 radar
… have to take a look to the Q-5 attackers later …
- p. 172 JH-7A no. 21092 is not 18. Division but 28. with old numbers
- p. 185 JL-9 has a new wing and not the J-7E’s
- p. 188 L-15 single seater is WRONG … it’s a cockpit diagram of EADS’s MAKO
- p. 224/228 Y-8 radar testbed … it’s not the J-10’s radar but the J-11B’s and gun-ship Y-8 is based on FAN-Art
- p. 227/229 Y-8AF ASW-version is a geographic survey ac from the Chinese geological institute, whereas Y-9 ASW with IFR-probe (albeit nice) is not even mentioned in the text and not reported so far … but maybe probable !
… for all others I have to look later ...
So long with all the best for 2009,
Deino
