DFW Aircraft of WWI: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes (Great War Aviation Centennial Series) - Softcover

Herris, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193588154X ISBN 13: 9781935881544

Publisher: Aeronaut Books, 2017

Synopsis

This book describes and illustrates the development of DFW aircraft of WWI with text, 430 photos, 23 in color, 45 color profiles + 11 pages of factory colors, production quantities and serial numbers of aircraft, and aircraft dimensions and performance specifications. In addition, 11 aircraft are illustrated in 1/48 scale drawings. The book has 286 pages and is of interest to aviation historians, enthusiasts, and modelers alike.

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About the Author

Jack Herris has a long history with aviation. His parents started dating while car-pooling together to North American Aviation during WW2. Jack’s father built P-51s, including parts for the first P-51 Mustang ever built, and his mother built B-25s. In 1971 Jack graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics. He then served as a Naval Aviator, flying P-3B Orion aircraft with VP-46 based at NAS Moffett Field. After leaving the navy he worked in the Laser Fusion Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, then worked in the high tech industry in Silicon Valley. He holds CFI, CFI-I, CFI-ME, ATP, and Learjet type ratings. Jack is a long-time member of the League of WWI Aviation Historians, and before that the Cross & Cockade Society, and has written more than a dozen articles on WWI aircraft published in their quarterly journal, Over the Front and has edited several issues of that journal. He brings additional insight into these aircraft both from his engineering and military pilot experience. In 1992 he founded Flying Machines Press to publish aviation history books and after publishing 20 titles, sold Flying Machines Press in 2000. He became a repeat offender by starting Aeronaut Books, which published its first two new aviation books around Thanksgiving 2010 and now has 46 new titles in print. Jack wrote 30 articles on WWI airplanes for Model Aircraft magazine published in the UK, and has written the following 21 books on WWI aircraft: SPAD Two-Seat Fighters of World War I Aircraft of WWI: 1914–1918 Development of German Warplanes in WWI German Seaplane Fighters of WWI Nachtflugzeug! German N-Types of WWI German Armored Warplanes of WWI Pfalz Aircraft of World War I Gotha Aircraft of World War I Germany’s Triplane Craze Germany’s Fighter Competitions of 1918 Roland Aircraft of WWI, Aviatik Aircraft of WWI Rumpler Aircraft of WWI Siemens-Schuckert Aircraft of WWI German Monoplane Fighters of WWI German G-Type Bombers of WWI German Seaplanes of WWI AEG Aircraft of WWI Genesis of Fighter Aviation in WWI Friedrichshafen Aircraft of WWI Albatros Aircraft of WWI , Volume 1 | Early Two-Seaters Albatros Aircraft of WWI , Volume 2 | Late Two-Seaters Albatros Aircraft of WWI , Volume 3 | Bombers, Seaplanes, J-Types Albatros Aircraft of WWI , Volume 4 | Fighters DFW Aircraft of WWI

Edition details

• Publisher: Aeronaut Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 193588154X
• ISBN 13: 9781935881544
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 286
• Illustrator: Pearson Bob, Weaver Aaron, Anderson Steve