WWI Aviation books cover art

[Jos]

The Jew with the Blue Max by Heinz Joachim Nowarra (1967).




Jos

[dpolglaze]

You know, Greg, '65 was a good year too. March and April are posted at post 678 (WWI Aviation books cover art) and here are August and October, both by Kotula:






Dan

[Gregvan]

Thanks for posting those two, Dan. I have both of them in my files. The Blackburn Kangaroo is one of my favorites; even though it actually hardly saw combat (and never engaged Fokker Tripes or Pfalz in pre-March 1918 markings) it's still a great image!

Greg

[Kirk R. Lowry]

Bonjour tous!

As magazine covers appear to be quite popular to post I thought to add a couple from "avions" which is published in France. The publication has been issued for more than 10 years now and it may be argued to have the consistently best covers of any aviation periodical. Unfortunately, relatively, few feature Great War subjects, but, below you can appreciate a brace of covers on which SPADs are portrayed.

The artist of both (and most, if not all, of the covers of "avions" is L. Labeyrie who is quite capable of portraying aircraft accurately while illustrating scenes of great drama.


Labeyrie depicts a combat on the 19th of February, 1918 in which Jacques R. Roques, flying a SPAD XIII of Spa 48 sent down a Rumpler C type over Resson-sur-Metz at 1840. The claim would seem to match the loss of Erich Richter, observer, and Adolf Schulz, pilot, both of whom were killed, of FA203(A).


Labeyrie illustrates a combat between a Fokker D.VII and a SPAD XIII flown by Henri de Slade of Spa 159 in the summer of 1918.

Salut mes amis!
Kirk

[Varese2002]

Originally Posted by Jos

Hello,


A Russian translation of Double Decker C666 by Hauptmann Heydemarck.

The cover was made by Sergey Pozharskiy. It seems that only 5000 copies were made.





Jos

The cyrillic title has Биплан С666 which translates as Biplane S666, probably the translator found that also okay. The number of 5000 printed is quite high as even today Russian books are printed with 500 copies or even less.

Cheers

Kees

[Jos]

Hello,

I don't know who made the cover.





Jos

[tcrean7828]

Mates,
How about these to tempt you!

MvR

[Germanophile-1]

I'm really glad to see "proof" that Oswald Boelcke flew a Fokker Dr.I. I leave it to Greg to determine the accuracy of the markings.

The Boelcke biography by Anton Lübke has an interesting cover by Richard Sapper, who went so far as to add the serial number to Boelcke's plane: Fok. D.III 350/16. Can anyone confirm the accuracy of that detail?

Peter

[Gregvan]

Hi Germanophile-1,

Those books in the Fliegergeschichte series were very thin little paperbacks, cheaply printed and hurriedly written, so I'm not too surprised about "Boelcke's Fokker Dr.I". That wasn't the last time Boelcke would be depicted as flying a Fokker Triplane.

Actually, the serial number of Boelcke's famous Fokker D.III was 352/16, not 350/16. However, the artist Richard Sapper did a very commendable job of accurately portraying a Fokker D.III on the cover. There is a very familiar Fokker factory photo of Fokker D.III 350/16 published in that very book (facing page 48 in my edition) which is (mistakenly) captioned as "Ein von Boelcke geflogener Fokker-Doppeldecker". Ironically, on the reverse of that photo page is another shot, this time showing 352/16 as it was restored and displayed in the Zeughaus in the interwar years, with the serial number plainly visible: "Ein Fokker-Doppeldecker (160 PS, 140Zylinder-Umlaufmotor) mit dem Boelcke viele Siege errang." That much was correct. In some editions of this same book by Lübke, I believe there are a couple of interior color illustrations by Sapper as well, which accurately show incidents in Boelcke's career. Sapper was better than most artists of the day in attempting to show aircraft accurately.

[Germanophile-1]

Thanks, Greg.

Sad to say, my edition has no photos and only two of Sapper's color artwork inside.

Peter