WWI Aviation books cover art

[Gregvan]

Here's more of Iain's work from the aforementioned book and collector's card series. You don't see too many paintings of Capronis:



Here's the ever-popular Rudolf Berthold Fokker D.VII:


I wonder who that is in the Triplane?

[Gregvan]

Hey there, everyone,

I hope it's OK with the Over the Front gang and Steve Anderson that I post this here, but I just HAD to when I received Volume 24 No. 3 of Over the Front in my mailbox today. This is really stunning!!


It's a brand-new and special painting by Steve Anderson just for this issue. It depicts the first KDW prototype being flown by Ltn.d.R M I Fritz Hammer. On 23 September 1916, Hammer (what a great name! Shades of DC comics!) attacked a Sikorsky Ilya Mouromets reconnaissance/bomber and brought it down after four firing passes. Obviously this was the first victory for a KDW and the second of only three Ilya Mouromets downed by enemy aircraft.

Wanna know more? Ron Kintner tells the entire operational history of the KDW in this issue, and Jack Herris describes the type and its derivatives. The Forum is also well-represented in this issue, with scale plans of the H-B W.16 and W.25 by Colin Owers, as well as terrific color profiles of the various Hansa-Brandenburg Floatplane fighter prototypes and KDW's by our own James F. Miller. This issue should thrill the aeroplane-technical-enthusiast crowd, with articles on the 240 hp Mercedes D.IV engine, as well as the first part of the story of Tony Fokker's famous post-war Smuggling plot by Dutch historian Johan Visser. If your interest in Italian aviation has been sparked by Paolo Varriale's new Osprey book, you'll enjoy Roberto Gentilli's detailed analysis of the Italian Air Force in 1918, with detailed orders of battle, etc.

Congrats to Jack Herris, Steve Ruffin, Aaron Weaver and everyone else involved. Wow - I keep going back to that cover - what a great depiction of a very historic, unique and rare subject.

[Gregvan]

In another thread I started, here's Paolo's new book. Art by Mark Postlethwaite:

[dpolglaze]

Some more Robert Casari line art. There are two more, but I apparently didn't up those to the host yet.





Dan

[Gregvan]

Well, I've run out of covers to post, so I hope I'll be forgiven for posting more of Iain Wyllie's artwork from Biplanes, Triplanes & Seaplanes. Some classic aces and their machines.

Here's Billy Barker and his classic Camel, doing what they did best:


Vieux Charles and Guynemer:


Another view of the Rittmeister in action:


Nungesser:


And, of course, Captain Eddie:

[Gregvan]

An unusual view of a Pup in action:


A Nieuport-Delage 29, which just barely qualifies as a WWI aircraft:

[Romani]

This is a cover of sorts, I can't resist posting it here, dedicated to Luftschiff Harry.

A disturbing picture... what are the dastardly Huns up to with their new secret weapon?

[Gregvan]

Hi,

Found some more covers of books from the 1930's on the 'net. Here's W.E. Johns' art for the cover of the original edition of German War Birds by 'Vigilant', aka Claud W. Sykes:



Here's the cover to Fighter Pilot by "McScotch" (aka William MacLanachan of 40 Sqdn) . I don't know the artist:


Rovers of the Night Sky was by "Nighthawk", a pseudonym for W. J. Harvey. Again, the cover artist is unknown.

[Gregvan]

Here are some novelizations of WWI aviation films. Many of these were written by Guy Fowler. The Sky Hawk came out in 1929,and this book was "novelized from the William Fox all talking movietone, adapted from "A Chap called Bardell" by Llewellyn Hughes". The movie starred Helen Chandler and John Garrick. I've never seen it & don't even know if a print still exists, but it would be interesting to see!


Here's a different version. The movie apparently involved a Zeppelin.


The Legion of the Condemned came out in 1928, and this novelization was written by Eustace Ball, based on the Paramount screenplay by John Monk Saunders. The film starred Gary Cooper and Fay Wray. Cooper was in two other WWI aviation flicks: Wings and Lilac Time. Fay Wray went on to star in a film with a 50-foot gorilla, rescued by biplanes flying around the Empire State Building, produced and created by WWI aviator Merian C. Cooper.

[Gregvan]

Here's the cover to Kiernan's classic biography of Ball, which does at least feature a painting:


Here's one for Ginger:


Here's a striking cover for Rolf Marben's Zeppelin Adventures book, originally published in English in 1931: