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Title: WNW Hannover: A boyhood dream come true
Post by: rhwinter on December 27, 2012, 10:06:15 PM

Hi all from Germany, hope you all spent some beautiful holiday-days!

I posted this before at the "What's New!"- thread (http://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=1120.75 and http://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=1120.90), but thought it could fit here too, as I prvoked some very friendly answers (thank you!):
 
I ordered my Hannover on Dec. 1st, it was being shipped on Dec. 7th, arrived at German customs on Dec. 18th and (LUCKY ME !) today, Dec. 22nd, - after having payed the usual tax- amount, I HELD IT IN MY HANDS! A boyhood-dream has finally come true. Thank you, Wingnut Wings!
So here's what made the seven year old boy then, way back when, a Hannover-fan. I was ill, had to stay in bed for some days and read the autobiography of Hans Baur, Hitler's personal pilot. Well, I didn't get far, but I really enjoyed the pages that deal wit Baur as a very young pilot close to the end of WW1. The other book I had with me in bed was the Airfix-catalogue, and there they were, the Hannover and the SPADs, which I had just read of in Baur's book.. wonderful! (And it was also then, whe I fell in love with the Roland C.II - another wish right from my heart towards WNW...)

(http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a488/rhwinter/HansBaur_MitMaumlchtigen_1918_zps8969085b.jpg)

(http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/a488/rhwinter/HannoverClIIIa_1918_PilotHansBaur_zps4a3b392f.jpg)

All the best for 2013!
Richard

Title: Re: WNW Hannover: A boyhood dream come true
Post by: Graham t on January 20, 2013, 08:31:42 PM

Interesting story.  It was the "Biggles" books that did it for me when I was a kid & got me building Airfix Camels, Albatros & Fokkers.  Ditto about the Roland CII, I'd love a WNW kit of that beauty!