FJ Books

Jim Mesko and Joe Sewell made this Squadron-Signal book on one of the most important aircraft designs in aviation, the Fury.

Jim does an excellent job of showing the first models of the Fury. The inital straight wing Fury has the same wing as a P-51 Mustang. The Jet itself was a failure. It was not the fault of the excellent North American designers. Rather, technology was at fault, the first models of the Fury were given jet engines not up to the job. I think Mr. Mesko did a great job of writing and giving photographs showing this.

The USAF asked the North American designers to give the basic design a 35 degree sweep and a J-47 engine. That jet became the famous F-86, the subject of a different book.

The F-86E was taken into Naval service as the F2 Fury. Basically, all that was done was put a tail hook on the aircraft and an stronger nose strut. The Navy had a jet that could at least fight on equal terms with the MiG-15.

The last versions of the Fury were given a new wing and the whole airframe was redesigned. The Navy now had a jet the equal of the Soviet MiG-17. Once again the reader is given many photos, drawings, and writing to show the smooth transition.

The Fury was evolved into a ground attack aircraft. However, at this time the A-3 Skyhawk was also coming into service. Basically, the little Skyhawk was a much better aircraft than the Fury and replaced it in squadron service by the very early 1960s.

I liked this book. It's easy to read, has lots of extremely good photographs, drawings, and a nice set of color plates. Aviation buffs will learn about an important aircraft in history. Modellers will get some valuable reference information.

Five Stars.

I picked this book up on a whim and I'm glad I did. I love scaring myself and what would be more sufficently scary than a book entitled Mindscreams?

Well, it worked. Even when I put the book down, I couldn't put it down. Physically I did, but the stories would still be running around in my head and I couldn't get them out. Think you can handle this? Come on, I dare you!

I would have given the book 5 stars, but I accidently left the book out, and my grandmother picked it up. I haven't heard the end of it from her yet!

Never sure what to expect next. Enjoyed the quick read of each and every "mindscream". "Hope and Horror" definitely!!! Can't wait to see what is coming next. The instant fix instead of waitng until the end of the book was amazingly different and satisfied my need for instant gratification. Am waiting impatiently for the next installment, or whatever F.J. Gouldner has in mind for his next "mindscream"!

Got this for my son for Xmas and he loves the detail and history put in to the book.

I bought this as a Christmas present for my boyfriend, who owns a Voodoo FJ.....

It gives great detail starting from the original design sketchings, the prototype, to finished product!

All Owners that bought the 1st generation FJ Cruiser NEED this book!!

Peter Jennings has established the benchmark by which future such books will be judged. Although a relatively obscure subject, those who are familiar with the subject will agree that it is a classic. Given that the book was published in 1973 one could say that Jennings has been ahead of his time.

Prior to this book the collector only had access to a couple of catalogues on aerogrammes and this was the first attempt to put the subject in book form.

The book itself is well constructed with a logical sequence of events. My only reservation is that its title "Aerogrammes" promises so much but only really delivers on the aerogrammes of Great Britain. The book documents the historical background very well but not exhaustively. I would have liked to have seen an expanded section on background material. Also the coverage of world issues of aerogrammes would have been well received.

As this subject is only ever covered sporadically the enthusiast has to grab th! em when ever they come along. I highly recommend the book to any one interested in the subject. A sequel would be wonderful, Mr Jennings.

This looks like a great series of books, but missing models of historical significance - the model NO and NR

Mr. Warth, are there plans to fill this gap? As a model builder, photo reference of the Mack NO and NR are highly sought after.

This is a fairly comprehensive book about shoulder MRI, with a good explanation of MR shoulder arthrography, the ABER view, etc. It's a must-have for the dedicated muskuloskeletal imager. Does have some more information in it than Resnick's chapter on MRI of Joints. The only ding that I give it is that it's a bit pricey for the thin volume, but I got mine used at half price.

This book is more like a motorcycle's manual for dummies and had instructions and illustrations which could allow ME to work on my bike.

loved it. It left room for some improvement, though. I loved the tales of romance..the bickering..the dog...yeah..I couldn't put this one down. This is the first of hers I've read and I am hooked.

I thought this was a good read, especially if you like the sisterhood books. These are the mercenaries they trade secret camps with! I thought it was funny how the women all came together to start with!
Awesome read!

I rented this book on CD for a long drive and it was so bad, that my daughter said "Mom turn this off it is stupid". I agreed but we finished it anyway. It was the worst Fern Michaels book ever. So ridiculous you had to laugh. I gave the two stars because it took time to write. That is the only reason. Don't waste your time.

This book was a waste of time. The plot was silly and extremely unrealistic. Pappy was underdeveloped as a character and I couldn't even like him. When the end came and they still hadn't spent any quality time together, I was at least expecting him to fess up about his reasons for ousting her. Instead his father had to do all the explaining, resulting in her asking Pappy if he loved her....to which the answer came "Yeah." Whatever. A very unromantic romance novel if you ask me.

Very rarely do I start a book and give up on it before I finish it. I buy it, I feel I should finish it. But I simply couldn't with this one. To say it was bad is an understatement. If I could give it zero stars, I would.

I've read Fern Michaels before and have enjoyed her books. This was is so bizarre and boring, I simply couldn't read it. The premise of 5 ladies being approached to join a secret mercenary group is completely unbelievable. The 5 women to me seemed silly when they thought, why not, let's give up our lives as we know it and go do this. I suffered through 50 pages and gave up.

I wouldn't recommend anyone even checking this out of a library. There are so many better books out there to read. As for Fern Michaels, that's the last book of hers I will pick up.