[Jukka Juutinen]

I have never claimed that every aircraft book should be technical book. However, when we have aircraft monographs hundreds of pages in length, books titled like "The Hawker Hurricane", surely one can expect a thorough technical examination to be included. A good example of utter failure is Martin Pegg´s Hs 129 book. No performance curves, no official handling reports (to allow reader to decide whether or not it had good handling), no data on armor steel composition, tempering, hardness, strength.

Some authors excel in listing the numerous mods on an aircraft, but utterly fail to analyze why the modification was incorporated. Many authors mention the oil pressure problems on the 109G, yet they fail to analyze why the problem occurred. All this most probably due to complete inability to understand the subject he is writing about.

I might indeed stick to great naval authors like Mike Whitley, John Roberts, Eric Lacroix, D.K. Brown, William Garzke. Or superior tank authors like Walter Spielberger or R.P. Hunnicutt. Or the best aircraft authors like David Birch, Dan Whitney, Francis Dean, Birch Matthews, Rüdiger Kosin and leave the hacks alone.