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AH-1 Tzefa in IAF Service book

Product # IAFB-19  ISBN: 978-965-7220-16-0  for $39.00

Product Article by Steve Bamford on Sept 16 2011

 

This new soft cover 100 page book from IsraDecal covers the AH-1 Tzefa in IAF Service and is written by IsraDecal owner, well respected modeler and world renowned all around nice guy Ra'anan Weiss.  This publication is #7 in their popular series 'Aircraft in Detail' and covers the AH-1 Tzefa from it's initial evaluation to forming  an active Squadron up to current time. This book has 22 pages of photos and text devoted to the history of the AH-1 Tzefa including it's involvement and the loss of 2 AH-1 Tzefa during the Israeli invasion of Lebannon.  There is an impressive amount of detail in the 22 pages and it is a riveting read.

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But he main focus of this 100 page soft cover book is all the detail photos.  You get....

  • 360 color photos
  • 59 black and white photos
  • 14 line drawings
  • 6 color side profiles

 The photos are grouped in the book making it quick and easy to find the relevant photos you need for that extra bit of detailing you are trying to add to your AH-1 Tzefa model.

The photos "groupings" include:

  • Introduction 
  • The 'Southern Squadron' Photo Gallery
  • The 'Northern Squadron' Photo Gallery
  • Flight School
  • Color Profiles
  • Daily and Routine Maintenance
  • Walkaround Front Cockpit
  • Walkaround Rear Cockpit
  • Walkaround Nose Section
  • Walkaround M-197 - 20mm Gatling Gun
  • Walkaround Gun Ammunition Box, Air Data Sensor
  • Walkaround Stub Wings, Formation Lights
  • Walkaround Wings, Pylons and Skids 
  • Walkaround AH-1 General Arrangement, Cable Cutters
  • Walkaround  Landing Lights, Aerials
  • Walkaround Airborne Laser Tracker, Formation Lights
  • Walkaround Main Rotor
  • Walkaround Electronic Warfare Aerials
  • Walkaround Electronic Warfare Aerials, Chaff / Flare Dispensers
  • Walkaround Lycoming T53-L-703 Exhaust and Sand Filters
  • Walkaround ALQ-144 Infra Red Jammer, Tail Boom and Lower Fuselage Aerials 
  • Walkaround  Tail Section, 
  • Walkaround  Tail Section, Formation Lights
  • Walkaround  Tail Section, Squadron Badges
  • Walkaround  Armament Subsystems M35
  • Walkaround  Armament Subsystems M35 and M18
  • Walkaround  Machine Gun and Grenade Launcher
  • Walkaround  2.75 Inch Rocket Launchers
  • Walkaround  BGM-71 TOW Misslies
  • Walkaround  Tail Rotor

Wow...this is quite the book and up to the usual very high standards that modellers have come to love and appreciate from Ra'anan Weiss at IsraDecal If you have an interest in the Cobra or specifially the IAF AH-1 Tzefa or Israeli Aviation or if you're a modeller planning on building a AH-1 Tzefa, then this book will be a valuable resource and well worth adding to your reference library.

I would like to thank IsraDecal for providing me with this review sample.

Steve

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford