Aviation: the World's Aircraft A‐Z (revised and reformatted edition)

If I say at the start that this book barely falls within the criteria for Reference Reviews, that is not actually to impugn it in any way. It is a very attractive, interesting and perceptive work, at least as far as it goes. The author/artist, Fia O Caiomh, is an Irish artist and architect, also a pilot of light aircraft, and he has compiled drawings of aircraft over more than ten years. More than 900 illustrations are gathered in this very attractive and informative volume.

Each opening to the main text presents four, sometimes three or occasionally six, drawings...