Weras the first books were more
civil orioentaded resp the Military
aitcraft were post-war that change
my interest changed when I received
the four Fighters volumes
Warplanes of the Second World
War and Famous Bombers of
the Scond World War also from
Wiliam Green and published by
Macdonald.
I
asume I
received these books in 1965 and the
Famous Bombers a bit later.
I remember wel
that I kept these handy boks in my
Coat pocket going to church, pulling
them out when ny family met friend
after the end of the ....and reading
them.
I
think it was 1969 when the
Fighters series was suppemented
by the volumes Seaplanes and
Floatplanes from the same
series War Planes of the Second
World War ( I never got the Bomber
books , only now as secondhand).
Presumably at the same time I also
got the series Profile Publications
(example Volume 162 Vulcan, picture right
below ), which I
later subscribed to.
These books coincides with my peak
interests in building plastic kits,
mostly military and WW2 , too.
One book which I bought especially
for modelling purposes was was
Aircraft Camouflage and Markings
1907-1954.
Books like Macdonald Aircraft
Handbook, Aircraft of
the World ,Warplanes of the Second
World War and the
Profiles are classics and
had a level of coverage, style in
writing and layout which has in my
opinion never been attained any more
in the field of type reference
books.
So a book like
Kens
Flugzeugtypen from Kaklheinz
Kens were somehow neglegted. I got
it also from the local library and
kept it with renewal a year or
longer.
At the end
of the 60´s I also get to know the
Putnam series another
examples of classic series and
publisher.(Picture
below: Boeing Aircraft Since
1926. Peter M. Bowers, below)
Magazines
1965-1974
In January 1963 (14 years old) I started to read regularily the magazine Flugrevue, in
mid 1964 additionally Interavia.
I bought them in my local newsstand.
The first English language magazine
has been Flying Review
which I started to subscribe in
1967.
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