Hey "BALD"-E
I heard the last time you were out there you flew their Fokker DVIII how was it?
Also remember these:
Its JJ's war diary as you mentioned. The really cool thing about this book when you can't read German is 1) the PLM mounted on the front of it: it's almost worn out. 2) the tons of tiny little BAROGRAPHS backing up each flight entry as to what happened via altitude. These little gems are from a recording altimeter, which was monted somewhere in the plane.
It produced these little slips of altitude reading over time.
After comming back from Denver I set my sites on finding one, and as luck would have it, there was one listed on EBAY.DE that very week. Thankfully it was mis labeled and miscategorized or I would have surely lost it to Achim, Oliver or Udo.
I got it for 75 bucks! When it showed up a the house I assumed it was probably from a Zepplin or some later plane, but it does have a IDFLIEG marker burned in the top of it so who knows.
It's built with a bellows, a wind up mechanism, a pen and a drum on which the small graphs are tightly wrapped and tear off as spent.
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