Aircraft

The Blue Max Airmen Volume 14 covers the careers of Fricke, Horn, Loerzer, Kroll, and Buttlar-Brandenfels. Loerzer and Kroll were fighter aces, Fricke and Horn were observers, and Buttlar-Brandenfels was a Zeppelin Commander. The book has 128 photos in...

The Blue Max Airmen series is the real story of the German airmen awarded the Pour le Mérite during the Great War. Author Lance J. Bronnenkant, PhD., and Aeronaut Books are pleased to bring you the most detailed and graphically lavish account of these...

This book describes and illustrates the development of German monoplane fighters in WWI with text, 310 photos, 50 color profiles, production quantities and serial numbers of aircraft, and aircraft dimensions and performance specifications. In addition,...

This book describes and illustrates the development of German armored warplanes in WWI, primarily J-class infantry aircraft but including other experimental types, with text, more than 160 rare, contemporary photos, 38 color profiles, and tables of...

This book describes and illustrates the development of L.F.G. Roland aircraft in WWI with text, 390 photos (9 in color), 50 color profiles, production quantities and serial numbers of aircraft and aircraft dimensions and performance specifications. In...

This book describes and illustrates the development of German Navy seaplane fighters in WWI with text, 223 rare, contemporary photos, nine color photos, 27 color profiles, five evocative paintings, and tables of information including production...

This book, the first of three volumes on Brandenburg aircraft, describes and illustrates the development of Brandenburg land warplanes in WWI with text, 475 photos (59 in color), 67 color profiles, 9 factory 3-view drawings and 10 detail drawings,...

The Blue Max Airmen series is the real story of the German airmen awarded the Pour le Mérite during the Great War. Author Lance J. Bronnenkant, PhD, and Aeronaut Books are pleased to bring you the most detailed and graphically lavish account of these...

Volume 8 covers two fighter aces, Heinrich Gontermann and Lothar von Richthofen, younger brother of the Red Baron. Volume 8 includes 133 photographs, 3 of them in color, and 9 color profiles of aircraft flown by these men in its 126 pages.

This book describes and illustrates the development of German single-engine night bombers, or N-types, in WWI with text, 54 rare, period photos, 7 color photos, 9 color profiles, tables of information including production quantities, serial numbers of...

This book describes and illustrates the development of Brandenburg biplane seaplanes in WWI with text, 336 photos, 54 color profiles, 13 factory 3-view drawings and 28 SVK drawings, production quantities and serial numbers of aircraft, and aircraft...

Volume 7 covers three fighter aces, Otto Bernert, Emil Schaefer, and Kurt Wolff. Volume 7 includes 133 photographs, 4 of them in color, and 12 color profiles of aircraft flown by these men in its 118 pages.

This book describes and illustrates the development of Sablatnig, Kaiserliche Werften, Lübeck-Travemünde, LTG, and Oertz seaplanes of WWI with text, 110 photos, 19 color profiles, production quantities and serial numbers of aircraft, and aircraft...

This book describes and illustrates Germany’s 1918 fighter development through the story of the three Fighter Competitions with more than 215 rare photos illustrating 70 fighter designs, 65 color profiles, and performance specifications. The German...

The Blue Max Airmen volume 15 is dedicated to Ernst Udet, with 62 victories the second ranking German ace of The Great War. Udet survived the war and had a colorful postwar career as a movie and airshow pilot. This book is the most comprehensive and...

This is a heavily-illustrated, comprehensive summary of all 80 victories of the famous Red Baron, the leading ace of WWI. Full details of each victory are given, including color profiles of the aircraft flown by Richthofen, the type and serial of the...

This book describes and illustrates the development of Siemens-Schuckert aircraft in WWI with text, 305 photos, 49 color profiles, production quantities and serial numbers of aircraft, and aircraft dimensions and performance specifications. In addition,...

One of the great unsung keystones in the development of aerial combat, the Bristol Scout was originally designed as a racing aircraft. It was used by the RNAS and the RFC as a 'scout', or fast reconnaissance machine, and was one of the first...

Volume 10 covers two fighter aces, Eduard Ritter von Dostler and Max Ritter von Müller, bomber commander Rudolf Kleine, and Leader of Airships Peter Strasser. Volume 10 includes 128 photographs, 10 of them in color, and 7 color profiles of aircraft...

Volume 2 covers Hans-Joachim Buddecke, Kurt Wintgens, and Max Ritter von Mulzer, the third through fifth aviation recipients of the Pour le Mérite. Buddecke spent much of his career in Turkey and is reasonably well known, but the other two aces have...

Volume 9 covers two fighter aces, Carl Allmenröder and Adolf Ritter von Tutschek, bomber commander Ernst Brandenburg, and observer Paul von Pechmann. Volume 9 includes 182 photographs, 7 of them in color, and 11 color profiles of aircraft flown by these...

Volume 6 covers Ernst von Hoeppner, Commanding General of the Luftstreitkräfte, Hermann Thomsen, Chief of Staff of the Luftstreitkräfte, and Werner Voss, one of the most flamboyant aces. Volume 6 includes 137 photographs, 9 of them in color, and 16...

Volume 3 covers Otto Parschau, Walter Höhndorf, Ernst von Althaus, and Wilhelm Frankl, the sixth through ninth aviation recipients of the Pour le Mérite. Volume 3 includes 165 period photographs and 14 color profiles of aircraft flown by these aces in...

This book describes and illustrates the development of Gotha warplanes in WWI with more than 285 rare, contemporary photos, 28 color profiles, performance specifications, and production data. The origin and evolution of Gotha designs are discussed in the...