jon, good point--
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But among many things, we need article submissions. You know what you want to see in these journals. If you have tips for topics that would make for a good read, contact me through this forum and I'll pitch them to the rest of the board...
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please let me offer for your consideration: as i said above, i'm enthralled with craftsmen like engels, mayrhofer, brooks,
et al recreating machinery and methods from nearly a century ago. while i was growing up building and flying models and reading 'falcons of france' i assumed the glory days of building beautiful warbirds from wood, wire, mild steel and irish linen were gone forever. well due to the dedication of a few, there's a wave of rediscovery of how fokker, albatros, pfalz, SPAD, le rhone and oberursel did what they did. in so many ways, history, engineering, airplane construction, industrial design, even politics and sociology, WWI affected the future. the men, and women [katherine stinson leaps to mind] moved flying machines from open two-seaters to comfy airliners. okay, okay, preaching to the choir here-- i'll get to the point... i submit there is a way to harness this powerful research tool, the internet, and apply it to a hardcopy magazine of significant distribution. not everybody has or wants to enjoy the internet-- where these builders are posting spectacular photos and notes. not everyone wants to do the net research on historical figures like fokker, junkers, boeing, doolittle, nordhoff and hall and the escadrille layfayette boys. IF the publisher wants to reach just a little more into the detail of the re-creation of fokkers and FE2Bs and the men behind them, old and new, they might tap into a new audience. how did engels, brooks, mayrhofer, peter jackson get where they are today? how did tony fokker become the famous builder he became, and what happened to him? inquiring minds want to know i think.
and then there's the movie angle, but that's another post entirely.
please understand i'm not suggesting fundamental redirection of the publications or amplifying history to the detriment of modelers or morphing them into something they're not. my sole motivation is to help them, and the website which i miss, survive and grow. they are a [if not
the] historical resource for great war aviation, and should remain so-- by embracing and using the web.
thanks for reading gents.
[stepping off soapbox]
[leaving hyde park]
[attempting aeroforum...again]
