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Spanish Air Force Magazine, (Aeronautics & Astronautics magazine) # 726 in September 2003
Traducción de la reseña de la Revista del Ejército del Aire Español
-Revista de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica-
publicada en el nº 726 de Septiembre del 2003.
Translation of the review published in the Spanish Air Force magazine
-Aeronautics & Astronautics magazine-
# 726, published in September 2003.
SBD-3 Dauntless and the Battle of Midway
216 pages,520 illustrations et photos,31 profiles, plan au 1/48,13 mpas
en 3D. in english Here from Spain a new concept of work putting a direct
bond between a plane and a major air battle. This title treats SDB3 which
were illustrated particularly in Midway. First half evokes the situation
and the course of operation with the naval and air movements of the two
camps. The text is illustrated with photographs in black and white, profiles
of planes, aircraft carriers, and especially 3D charts in the style
of Osprey. That swarms with details such codes of the flags, or the sings
of carrier landing. The second part is exclusively reserved for the aircraft
and the model maker will be at paradise. Plans at the 1/48, sketches interior,
photographs of an airplane from the NASM, and especially extracted notes
from flight and maintenance manuals explaining the functions and the
various internal circuits (gears, flaps, diving brakes..).this will radically
change us from the well-known walk-arounds, based on an unmovable standard.
The link is thus established between the initial state charge schedule and
the adopted technical solutions. The evolution of markings, colours and
versions of Dauntless finish this work which answers the various questions
that simple photographs alone, cannot bring. Warmly recommended to the fellows
of history and to the model makers. As BBC reporter Charles Gardner said
formely, <<we are waiting for the next...>>
JP Poisseroux
this text and show also has been transfered to a friend site and
will be on line soon ,at
http://www.ffsmc.com
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"Well, now might be a good time to mention a book I just received from Spain, SBD-3 Dauntless & the Battle of Midway by Daniel V. Hernandez (Aeronaval Publishing SL, ISBN 84-932963-0-9). I saw the ad in the magazine "Fine Scale Modeler", which I perused because it reviewed a new kit of an F-8E Crusader. The ad was well laid out, with good graphics that about 10 different pages which you could read if you looked carefully, and it stated "All technical data has been obtained from the official manuals" and that the recently deceased LCdr. Richard H. Best was credited with had written the prologue. Then Lt. Best was a hero of Midway, leading USS Enterprise's Bombing 6 and scoring a personal direct hit on the First Air Fleet's flagship carrier Akagi, which his squadron destroyed."... read more
David Ells
Yahoo.com newsgroup Airpower.
You can visit the IPMS /USA (International Plastic Modeler Society
in USA) web site to see more comments:
http://www.ipmsusa.org/Reviews/Books/Aircraft/Books_Aircraft.htm
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"Thank you so much for the two copies of SBD-3 Dauntless and the Battle of Midway. Some of the old pilots in the Museum thought the book was a good description of the SBD-3. One was so fascinated with the book he borrowed my copy. I put the other copy in the Emil Buehler Library here in the Naval Aviation Museum. I especially liked the illustrations of the fleet movements during the battle."
Roger Mott, Volunteer--Emil Buehler Library in the National
Museum of Naval Aviation---USA
"I received my copy of SBD-3 Dauntless today and let me congratulate you on publishing what is sure to be a benchmark for future aviation historical studies. The attention to detail and quality of this book is outstanding. Please pass my admiration on to the author Daniel Hernandez for his noteworthy addition to my historical aviation collection. I noted that this is volume one, can you state what the future volumes will be? If they are anywhere close to approaching same quality as this book, you can count on me as a loyal customer."
Major Terry Simo
USAF
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SBD-3 DAUNTLESS. THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY. Daniel V. Hernández, Volume of 216 pages with 24x22 cm. History, Aviation and Scale Models Series, Vol. 1. Published by Editorial Brosqil, S.L (Note.- The English version is published by Aeronaval Publishing S.L) The author introduce in this volume, an outstanding US Navy dive bomber, theSBD-3 Dauntless, that had his momentous in the mythical Battle of Midway, one of the greatest air naval clash in Naval History. His writing technique is, first to recount the action in the air and in the sea that developed in this important confrontation, in a superb style, to follow with the detailed and thorough description of the aircraft through all her production variants (type marks), furthermore the battle actions in which took part adding the naval units shedestroyed. The publishing presentation of the book is excellent, and also have in mind the scale modelers. The 1:48 scale plans, graphics and full color drawings are attractive and clarifying, and the pictures are of indubitable historic value. It is a very readable book, since the author uses a straight and clear style. In resume, it is a brilliant beginning of a series that foretells a promising future. REPLIC (Modelers Francaise magazine) (# November issue)
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