 | Great Overview
rating: 4
For the price, this is a great overview of flight from the Wright brothers onward. By looking at the price one can tell this won't be rated up there with Ken Burn's Civil War documentary, but for the price, it can't be beat.
Homeschoolers on a budget especially might find this a great buy to give their kids as an easily undertood introduction to the topic.
Good value for the money, and quite informative.
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If there was a zero star rating, I would use it
rating: 1
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES BUY THIS COLLECTION
Ditto everything the other reviewers have written, with the addtion of this note:
For a collection featuring the SR-71 Blackbird on the cover, it is not even mentioned on any of the four discs.
What a disappointment.
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Typical Madacy product
rating: 2
Had I realized this was a Madacy production before I bought it, I would have made a different decision. I learned long ago to avoid Madacy titles because of their poor production quality, but there was nothing on the box indicating Madacy involvement (it is there but almost impossible to read without a magnifying glass). The packaging was quite spectacular, unlike Madacy titles I had purchased in the past. Metal case with color printing and there was even a wonderful full-color book inside outlining many of the great pioneers of aviation and their aircraft with superb production quality. So, I was unprepared for the poor quality of the video content inside. I own many of the videos from disc 4 in VHS format, and could not believe how badly these have been reproduced on DVD. I can do a better job of transferring the VHS to DVD using my analog-to-digital converter! As other reviewers have pointed out (too bad I saw these posts after my purchase), the documentary is not organized in any meaningful pattern and fails to deliver on its promise of describing the history of aviation.
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Aviation History Recorded
rating: 4
With some minor flaws, for less than $ 20, this is a good collection of aviation history.
Going from the orginal, which has probably been copied several times, to DVD some quality has been lost, but still preserves the history of aviation and the type of movie photography for that time. Even though some main events of aviation history are not covered.
Anyone wanting a basic knowledge of aviation, and how it developed, this collection, you can't go wrong for the price.
Richard L. Holmes
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Make Love, Not War
rating: 1
This 4-disk video set is beautifully packaged in a 4-disk folder in a beautifully illustrated metal can case.
While it was reasonably well produced and showed some fun stuff, it was not organized well. The worst is the so-called "hawks and doves" disk that is all hawks.
During the first 100 years of aviation, warfare played a key role in air development, but not as overhwelming as portrayed here. The first two disks are almost entirely devoted to war with very little coverage of the development of civilian aviation at all. And even if it were supposed to be all about wartime aviation, some highly historical airplane episodes, such as the Enola Gay, are not even covered.
The third disk was devoted to space exploration. Moving from the second disk to the third suffered from some of the same sense of uneven treatment.
There must be a better collection than this - but where?
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