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Dan Hagedorn is senior curator with the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle.
Werke von Dan Hagedorn
The Story of Flight: Early Flying Machines, Balloons, Blimps, Gliders, Warplanes, and Jets (Voyages of Discovery) (1995) 103 Exemplare
Foreign Invaders: The Douglas Invader in Foreign Military and U S Clandestine Service (1994) 18 Exemplare
Air Arsenal North America: Purchases & Lend-lease, Aircraft for the Allies 1938-1945 (2010) 17 Exemplare
The 100 Hour War: The Conflict Between Honduras And El Salvador In July 1969 (Latin America @ War) (2017) 9 Exemplare
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First, let’s cover what was disappointing. No index, no bibliography, no footnotes, and sparse technical coverage.
What you do get is an excellent introduction to the history of US Army observation aircraft with a few fairly decent paragraphs fleshing out a few of the foreign contemporaries of the O-47. As part of the design competition the author also provides a nice specifications chart covering the entrants to the design competition that led to the O-47. Postwar service is covered fairly well. The book while not heavily illustrated is well illustrated with photographic quality appearing to be more dependent upon the quality of the source material rather than the publisher cheaping out on quality. For the modeler? There’s a bit of coverage on float and ordnance installations with along with a photo of a Nash Turret fit and form mockup. This is in addition to a few detailed photos of the target tug installation and a few photographs of the cockpits of fair quality.
There are 16 pages of color illustrations of mostly O-47 minus the 3 pages of color profiles or precursor Army Air Corps observation aircraft. There are 138 pages devoted to service units with organizations in Hawaii, the Canal Zone, Australia, etc. getting some coverage.
Too be frank, I’ve gernally been disappointed by the coverage given to airframe development and systems in the books authored by Mr. Hagedorn. However, his operational coverage is first rate. And makes his books worthy of purchase as aircraft histories within an organizational context. When taking his predilection towards now obscure aircraft and or obscure service use into consideration? I will continue to purchase his work.
I cannot enthusiastically recommend the book for either modelers or those like myself with a technical interest in the airframe and systems.
For someone with an interest in pre-war National Guard units and history? This book is an absolute goldmine and worthy of purchase.… (mehr)