INTRODUCTION TO THE 1974 EDITION
With the passing for press of this, the 23rd annual edition of The Observer's Book of Aircraft, it is interesting if sad to reflect that during this score-and-three years there has been no twelvemonth in which aerial warfare has not been recorded somewhere in the world. The year now past was certainly no exception as it encompassed the October Middle East conflict; small wonder, therefore, that substantially more than half the content matter of this volume is devoted to aircraft possessing purely military...
INTRODUCTION TO THE 1974 EDITION
With the passing for press of this, the 23rd annual edition of The Observer's Book of Aircraft, it is interesting if sad to reflect that during this score-and-three years there has been no twelvemonth in which aerial warfare has not been recorded somewhere in the world. The year now past was certainly no exception as it encompassed the October Middle East conflict; small wonder, therefore, that substantially more than half the content matter of this volume is devoted to aircraft possessing purely military roles, despite the fact that 1974 does not promise to be particularly proliferous in the new military aircraft types to which it will give birth. However, few though these newcomers may be in number, their singular interest could well promote this year to the vintage category.
The first of these débutantes will be the multi-national Panavia multi-role combat aircraft, or M RCA (see page 162), which Is of vital importance in the future planning of the RAF, the Federal German Luftwaffe and Aeronáutica l\/lilitare. Sharing variable geometry
with the MRCA but rather more spectacular in view of its size will be the Rockwell B-1A strategic bomber (see page 172), which is comparable from some aspects with the Soviet Union's Bacl
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