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Introduction
My
nostalgic look at books and magazines starts in 1960 when I
received my first genuine aviation books
:
86 Flugzeugtypen
( 86 Types of Aircraft )
, the
catalog of the
German Air Fair
1960 in Hannover, and the 1961 and 1962 issues of Flugzeuge der Welt the German language edition of The Observer´s Book of Aircraft
(more about these books see below).
Many books
and magazines were added to my
collection in the following years as I
got more and more addicted to aviation.
The
nostalgic look
at books and magazines ends in the year 1974 when I
sold most of my aviation books and
magazines. I
somehow had the feeling I had to stop
with aviation as a hobby and anyway
needed the money to buy a scientific
elctronic calculator for studying at
University. These calculators were very expensive
in those times, After that
break a few years later I started again
buying and collecting aviation books and
magazines . In 2003 I discovered online
buying of seconhand books and magazines
and was able to buy back all books and
magazines I have sold and which had a special
meaning to me.
Late 50s
My
first books I remember dealing with aviation
naturally were children´s books
- in form of fiction and in form of several
series of yearbooks dealing with a variety
of scientific, technical, and geographical themes(example
Feuer an Bord ).
I first
visited school and learned to read in 1955
so this class of books mostly belong to the
late 50s . They will be treated in a
forthcoming separate section. Though I certainly read them still in
parallel with the first set of genuine,
professional aviation books reviewed below .
1960-1965
86 Flugzeugtypen
and the catalog of the
German Air Fair
(Deutsche Lufgtfahrschau) 1960 in Hanover, which I got from my father when he came back from a visit to the Industrial Fair in
Hanover and the 1961 and 1962 issues of Flugzeuge der Welt the German language edition of The Observer´s Book of Aircraft .
These books constituted a set
of genuine, professional books about
aviation. They were my first type reference books which shaped me to become a fanatic aircraft type collector.
In fact my very first type reference book
was
the 1959 REVELL plastic kit catalog . Certainly not professional but
of great importance to my hobby.
Another important book was
Die Beherrschung der
Luft the
German and revised edition of
The World Airways
- and how they Work.
I got this book from the local library . I
cannot determine ecactly the year whwn I
first got it , but it should be in the early
60īs. It is in fact the first example
of a book I "bought back" for nostalgy
perhaps in the late 60īs or early 70īs.
In January 1963 (14 years old) I started to read regularily the magazine Flugrevue, in
mid 1964 additionally Interavia.
In mid 1964 I received the Macdonald Aircraft Handbook and I suppose in Cristmas 1965 the 3rd edition of Aircraft of the World from W. Green and G. Pollinger (both from Macdonald).
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