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The ATL-98 Carvair: A Comprehensive History of the Aircraft and All 21 Airframes | 
| Author: William Patrick Dean
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Category: Book
List Price: £67.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 154539
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 415
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0786436700
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.133343
EAN: 9780786436705
ASIN: 0786436700
Publication Date: September 15, 2008
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Well worth the money September 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book though expensive is well worth its purchase price. The unorthodox approach of dedicating a chapter to each airframe works surprisingly well, and should indeed be the way forward for type histories with a limited production run. There is much previously unpublished content both in data and the well produced photos. The depth and precision of the research clearly reflect the authors standing as the Carvair specialist with The International Association of Aviation Historians. The written style mixing personal recollections of a wide range of people directly involved with aircraft and the bare statistics of a production history makes for very pleasant and informative reading, but this is much more than a simple resume of the Carvair aircraft, it is a social history document covering the grandfather of the channel tunnel. The Carvair and its origins lie in the time before cross channel ferries and was a highly unorthodox solution to one of the problems facing foreign travel, getting vehicles and their occupants across water safely, regularly and economically. Mr Dean has done a truly remarkable job in pulling together so much information on such a quirky subject. All in all a must have addition for your bookshelf immaculately produced and exceptionally well written. Congratulations to author and publisher.
David S. Truman
"The Avgas Dinosaur"
Aviation historian, researcher and enthusiast.
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