Air War Over the Falklands

[tomf]

‘We know – we’ve made the world’s most obvious spelling mistake on the cover of our new book. Debbie, who designed the cover, has been relegated to the naughty corner for the foreseeable future. However, please don’t judge the book by its cover – the content has been carefully proofed.’

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[Gareth Morgan]

ooops :shithappens:

[Shaun]

We are all human,Tell Debbie she is forgiven

Shaun.

[Silver Fox]

If Neil Robinson has proofed it, it will be right.

[F-32]

Smelling pistakes strike again!

I'm sure it's an excellent publication

[Ed Russell]

However, please don’t judge the book by its cover – the content has been carefully proofed.’

I have all of these AIRfile publications and I find them quite inspiring..... so maybe this one will be too.

Of course you CAN judge it by the cover. The book cover designer let me know how he came up with the design. The company which specialises in book covers does all its work electronically using CAD and after a few descriptive telephone conversations, email copies and a quick reading of blog posts and Twitter feeds the story was communicated to the lowliest employee thus -

"One morning on the islands of Falkand, tiny specks in the North Atlantic, the inhabitants awoke to find that it appeared someone had erected a row of Portakabins on their airfield. In fact the Falkeinders soon discovered their mistake - these were Shorts 360's and were disgorging an invading army set on righting a historical wrong. They were the IWM's Home Guard Volunteer battalion. They had made their way north from London, cunningly disguised as boring academics and businessmen to be airlifted by the RAF's 633 Squadron. Their aircraft had been camouflaged in Dark Sea Grey and Dark Slate Grey over Medium Sea Grey but some of the troops tut-tutted when they saw the B-type roundels and Distinctive Markings....... However they took off from the frozen wastes of Scotland to land on the frozen waste of Falkand. This was the last outpost of WW2 as the garrison of Wetter Aufklarungs (Nord) Kommando had never surrendered (as nobody asked them to....) and their descendants still ruled Falkand. As the near bloodless invasion proceeded some of the Falkeinders contacted the UN for assistance. With characteristic speed the UN rushed their only available troops to Falkind - some companies of the 419th Paratroop Regiment of the Nigerian Army who providentially had their own air logistic support - a Nigerian Air Force Hercules. Unfortunately the Nigerians had been caught by the Great Hercules Door Hinge Scam and were unable to open the door to jump. Thus the Hercules had to land at the airfield. 633 immediately despatched its 360's to shoot down the invader. Knowing that the 360 would never have a height advantage over anything the only gun ports pointed upwards so they had to try and down a landing aircraft from below. So this was the Air War over the Falkands. Just design a cover - it's as simple as a model kit"

For further instalments, contact me at the Nigerian Consulate in Ougadougou with your bank account number and PIN.

Edited April 27, 2012 by Ed Russell

[Antoine]

‘We know – we’ve made the world’s most obvious spelling mistake on the cover of our new book. Debbie, who designed the cover, has been relegated to the naughty corner for the foreseeable future. However, please don’t judge the book by its cover – the content has been carefully proofed.’

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Difficult to judge the book on other thing than the cover, when you can view only the cover on the editor's webpage...

What about a few samples pages?

[roys]

Wot the 'ell ! http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AFILE3-6

Some of us only look at the pictures!

Edited April 29, 2012 by roys

[luis pacheco]

[Tom R]

It looks like some-one has done a bit of photo-shopping on the advert - they could have fixed up the Nigerian roundels too....

But seriously, has anyone got this book? is the stuff inside better than the cover? Unless they show a few pages and photos I'll give it a miss but I could be convinced by a review with knowledge.

[bootneck]

It looks like some-one has done a bit of photo-shopping on the advert - they could have fixed up the Nigerian roundels too....

But seriously, has anyone got this book? is the stuff inside better than the cover? Unless they show a few pages and photos I'll give it a miss but I could be convinced by a review with knowledge.

Hi Tom,

check out my review here

Personally, I think this is a great book if wanting to build British or Argentinian models of the conflict. Loads of colour detail. There are 184 aircraft illustrated.

Mike

[Seahawk]

Had a quick flick through at our local club meeting. I'm not usually impressed by books of profiles but I was a bit tempted by this one. Certainly the list of contributing authors, including our own NG899, is impressive. I hope they got all the mistakes out their system with the cover.

[FalkeEins]

‘We know – we’ve made the world’s most obvious spelling mistake on the cover of our new book.

.. not quite .....

Edited May 11, 2012 by FalkeEins

[Ed Russell]

.. not quite .....

It's a shortened version of Willy's Polish half-brother Marek Messerchitovskivitch

We proof-read our books and conversion instructions dozens of times and still we find mistakes..... sometimes months after release.

[Jabba]

If Neil Robinson has proofed it, it will be right.

I had a look at this book yesterday at Newbury show and found a couple of inaccuracies. It says that Nimrod R1s were based at Waddington in 1982 when they were at Wyton, and that they had the last two of their serial No on the nose when none of them ever had. It also says that there was a Chinook HC 2, which did not arrive in the RAF until 1993. I was thinking about buying the book, but after seeing these mistakes (which maybe the only ones) I put the book back on the table.