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14 December 2015, 08:38 PM
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Any reccomended reading on early air-WWI air developers?
Hello I've just watched a documentary on YouTube on Thomas Sopwith and am very eager to learn more on him.I am also interesting in learning on Anthony Fokker and other wartime/earlier developers of flight.What books do you all recommend on these individuals?
I've found this book on Thomas Sopwith but wonder if its still a good read? http://www.amazon.com/Pure-Luck-Auth...thomas+sopwith Cheers!
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14 December 2015, 10:02 PM
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Vintage Warbirds No 6 " Fokker Fighters of World War One " by Alex Imrie and " Albatros D.II & D.III Oeffag " published by JaPo from the Czech Republic are both pretty informative.
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14 December 2015, 10:07 PM
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The book "Taube, Dove of War" by Col. John A.de Vries is also a great source for early WWI aviation.
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15 December 2015, 01:04 AM
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"Pure Luck" is certainly worth getting, but only a relatively small part of it deals with Sopwith's aircraft designs - there is probably more on his yachts and sailing than on aircraft. Many early aircraft designers were also keen sailors...
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15 December 2015, 09:15 AM
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The Harleyford books on Sopwith (Sopwith - The Man and his Aircraft) and Fokker (Fokker - The Man and the Aircraft) have a fair amount of information.
There have been several additional bios on Fokker - Weyl (see this thread before you read it, and Dierikx (Fokker - A Transatlantic Biography) Also, Flying Dutchman is a Fokker bio at least partially written by him. There's a bio of Bleriot out there as well but I don't know it (Elliot, B.A. Blériot: Herald of an Age). |
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15 December 2015, 09:28 AM
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Thanks for the suggestions.I will look these up.These men are very fascinating to read about so I hope to get as much material on them.
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16 December 2015, 06:18 PM
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"Pure Luck" is a decent read. There's also a biography about Harry Hawker, who went to work for Sopwith before the war and became the company's chief test pilot soon after. I think this book is pretty easy to find and very reasonably priced: Blackmore, L.K. (1993), Hawker: A Biography
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