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Title: My first little WWI planes reference book
Post by: Robin on October 15, 2019, 10:04:01 PM
Bought in 1969....I was 9. This is also the oldest book I still own.
It's a Dutch translation...first published in English by Blandford Press in 1967.
73 colour profiles of WWI planes.

(https://i.postimg.cc/tTshqWtV/IMG-3459.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

(https://i.postimg.cc/j2NPNT1x/IMG-3461.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

Robin

Title: Re: My first little WWI planes reference book
Post by: Thumbs up on October 15, 2019, 11:06:36 PM
I had this book to! I was astonished to find out that there were other aircraft other than what Airfix kitted!Great illustrations!
Title: Re: My first little WWI planes reference book
Post by: ermeio on October 16, 2019, 06:52:25 AM
you've pretty the same memories of mine.
during the '70s I bought the same book -in italian at the stand of a well known chatolic presshouse  on the beach
Title: Re: My first little WWI planes reference book
Post by: Jeff K on October 16, 2019, 01:14:30 PM
my first WWI planes book wasn't a reference book, it was Ernst Udet's memoir. that got me interested in WWI planes.

well, to be fair, Snoopy had a role in that too...
Title: Re: My first little WWI planes reference book
Post by: Rip Van Winkle on December 26, 2019, 01:52:33 AM
My first reference book was  aircraft of WW1 by Kenneth Munson.  I received it for x-mas 1968. I still have it.
Title: Re: My first little WWI planes reference book
Post by: macsporran on December 26, 2019, 05:43:33 AM
I had the Blandford book too - even used their colour scheme for the Eduard 1/48 Fokker D.VI when it first came out!
Only later did I begin to doubt it......
Sandy
Title: Re: My first little WWI planes reference book
Post by: pierrelm on December 28, 2019, 06:49:27 PM
My first WWI reference was the Hippo pocket-sized title, bought I'm sure from the WH Smiths new kiosk on Peterborough station. A title that has now been with me for over 50 years and is still cherished - when I think 'Hannover' or D.VII it's the images from this well thumbed titled which first come to mind.
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The Blandford books were discovered, to almost disbelief at my local library - a real treasue trove, although even back then, the colours we a little too vivd to seem real. Luckily, we now know everything there is to know about WWI colours and camouflage.  ::)
Title: Re: My first little WWI planes reference book
Post by: lone modeller on January 04, 2020, 07:47:41 AM
Evening All,

Like pierrelm I too have a much loved (and thumbed) copy of the Hippo book, and its WW2 partner. I cannot remember how old I was when I bought it - probably in my early teens - but one photo always stuck in my mind because it was of a type that I badly wanted to have as a model but could not. It was the Maurice Farman 7 Longhorn:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49322123948_69c0289ce2_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2i9qM6o)

Approximately 50 years later I decided that the photo needed to be brought to life, so I scratch built my own MF 7! (there is a build log on this site).

Another volume that I bought a little later was this:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49322124048_696c2ccda5_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2i9qM87)

Note the price - 4/6d - approximately 23 pence in modern Sterling, but at the time a considerable sum, especially when all I had was 3/- a week pocket money! Still a treasure trove though.

At Christmas 1966 my brother gave me this:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49322829722_94a57a8b07_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2i9uoTU)

which really aroused my interest in the aviation of this period. What Funderburk left out though was the intense cold, oil all over the goggles and face from a rotary engine, unreliable engines and jammed guns, and all the other non-glamorous aspects of early flying. Still a very good read though, especially for a boy in his mid-teens.

Stephen.
Title: Re: My first little WWI planes reference book
Post by: Vickers on January 30, 2020, 10:02:42 PM
Great thread! I didn't have many books when I was little, but I remember that the first book I read was a paperback version of "Iron Men With Wooden Wings". Many of the books already noted in this thread were available at either my school or well-stocked public library and hauling stacks of them to and fro was probably my very first workout regimen.