What's the record for longest aerodrome thread? This one is certainly getting there. Shouldn't all this be compilied and stored in some other spot?
To answer the orig question: Dunno. Loved airplanes since before memories begin. Scale model builder in the early days of plastic. Never thot much about WW One. (Hard to build too -- all those struts.) Suppose my eye-openers from the era were a TRUE magazine article about Frank Tallman flying a Camel restoration and, about the same time, reading Quentin Reynolds'
They Fought For The Sky. Now I'm trying to write, not one, but two, books set in The Great War.
cheers, Boom