I opened my mailbox today

[shredward 12]

And discovered my long awaited copy of Bruno Schmäling's new book "Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 30 ". It's absobloodylutely marvelous. It has been 50 plus years in the making, based on interviews and journals of pilots long since gone West, along with the efforts and contributions of some of the giants among Great War aviation historians, and of course the archives. Hopefully, more titles to come, if this one does well. Get yourself over to your nearest source !
Cheers
Shredward

Edited July 29, 2014 by shredward

[Olham 164]

I followed the thread at THE AERODROME and saw, that Schmäling had talked to such aces like Josef Mai.

He did that in the 80s, just in time, before these old witnesses of the first air war would have died.

 

The colour informations on the different, individually painted planes alone must be worth to get it.

Bruno had colour pens and watercolours with him, when he visited the aces, and together they

re-defined the colours of many paintjobs, which we knew only from black+white photos.

 

Artists like Russel Smith, Jerry Boucher and our forum's JFM (James F. Miller) made illustrations and

profiles of many ace planes for this outstanding work - for me a must-have; I ordered it and hope

it won't take too long from AERONAUT America to Berlin. Here is a link for all interested:

 

http://www.aeronautbooks.com/product/978-1-935881-25-4

 

PS: if the book sells good enough, there are also books planned for Jasta 23b, Jasta 5 and Jasta 11.

Edited July 29, 2014 by Olham

[JFM 18]

Lots of fantastic things ahead for us from Bruno! One of the most important is his fact-based revelation about the fallicy of gray-shade interpretation, coming to Over the Front. Going to open many eyes...

 

Wha-wha-what? You say you don't get the Over the Front journal?   If you waste--I mean spend money on cable TV and have a real interest in WW1 aviation, then there's no excuse. Click here: http://www.overthefront.com/