Awesome book
This is one of my favorite aviation books.
Loaded with information about many planes you won't find many other places.
Overall a great book!
A good book
The book is a complete catalog of the X Plane developments over the years. What is a little distracting is the amount of treatment given to the aerospace vehicles that aren't "planes" at all, but merely had the "X" designation, so they ended up in this book. The more notable planes (XS-1, X-15, etc) were well documented. Overall, a good work.
best x-planes book to date!
this books been a long time coming/overdue! if you like the experimental prototype aircraft that paves the way for production line aircraft, then this book is for you. mr miller does an excellent job telling this story beginning with chuck yeagers "sound barrier" bell x-1, to todays stealthy yf-22 rapter and x-45. has my favorite jet in it the north american yf-107a and x-15. us air force museum store highly recommends this book to me. well worth the money if your into aircraft and experimental aircraft from late 1940s to today.
Aviation History at it's best.
Jay Miller is renowned for writing some of the best books ever published on aviation history. He approaches his subjects with a depth of knowledge which is unsurpassed. The level of detail on each aircraft type is mind boggling, but please don't expect this book to be a collection of detail photographs- there are other books around that do that better. Quite simply this is a book for those who have a thirst for understanding and learning about the more obscure technical details of these immensely important experimental aircraft.
excellent descriptions of some fascinating planes
As usual Jay Miller goes the proverbial extra mile to provide detailed information, often found nowhere else, on some of the most fascinating planes ever to fly. This book is for those with intelligence and education, who want more than a simplistic children's "picture book". Highly recommended!
