Member: YavorD

Hi Yavor. I saw you added the book about the airfield of Wien - Aspern (did not know it existed =:). Is there anything in this book about the Zeppelin-Staaken R.XIVa R69 that landed on June 29, 1919 quite unexpected in Aspern? I am (still) writing a piece on the whole story of this machine.

Cheers

Kees

posted by Varese2002 at 1:15 pm (EST) on Oct 3, 2009

Hi Yavor, thanks for your comment on my new book, I modified the text accordingly. I do think now this book is Croatian (because it is printed in Zagreb) and because of his love of the Croatian people he changed his name from Eduard Penkala to Eduard Slovoljub Penkala (quote from the book). I have now the idea that the book is in the Croatian language and not in Serbian. But maybe this is one and the same language ? I looked through the text and saw that I could recognize parts of it with a little effort.

Cheers

Kees

posted by Varese2002 at 3:57 pm (EST) on Jul 22, 2009

Hi Yavor, news had reached me already that you were in Finland eating with a mutual friend. You travel the world really, probably in a next life I need to go in atomic physics too =:) I see you also acquired a few Finnish books. For quite a time I was interested in the first volume of Suomen Ilmavoimat I 1918-1927, I think it may be very interesting which lots of unknown pictures. Is the photo quality up to the task?

Cheers

Kees

posted by Varese2002 at 6:15 am (EST) on Jun 16, 2009

Hi Yavor, buying books in France is always difficult not only from Bulgaria. This splendid book about Reims comes via amazon.fr but I got the message that it could not be delivered to Holland. In the end via direct contact with the bookseller we succeeded in selling it directly (not via amazon.fr). Probably it is requisite to write in French, while English messages will go at the bottom of the pile (mostly no response). It is also possible that no response whatsoever comes on a French language sent mail.
Collecting has its difficulties .... BUT considering the years 1960 / 1970 is was next to impossible to buy a book in France (and any forign country either !).

Difficult buying remains of course for Russia, Poland (sometimes).

But the book on Reims is great. The collection of pictures comes from the almost limitless archives of the Musée de l'Air et l'Espace. Marvellous, very good printing. Book is already quite a rarity now

Cheers

Kees

posted by Varese2002 at 2:31 am (EST) on May 30, 2009

Hi Yavor, just as me you are probably buying too many books or magazines, so there is a backlog for reading. I stumbled on your qualification of eclectic for the German series, I could not see what you meant. You are right, the contents of the different parts is sometimes variable, but always at least 3-stars and sometimes higher.

Cheers

Kees

posted by Varese2002 at 5:22 pm (EST) on May 24, 2009

Hi Yavor, is the book from Werner Schwipps okay? This is one part in a very long series - still running - which has produced lately (already 2 years ago I think) a volume about Rumpler. There are planned a host of others (I remember Siemens, but also others) which may arrive between now or 5 years (or perhaps never).

Cheers

Kees

posted by Varese2002 at 7:19 am (EST) on May 22, 2009

YavorD,

Thank you for the information!

WaltNoise

posted by WaltNoise at 10:26 am (EST) on May 19, 2009

I noticed you have got the biography about Jannus too. It find it highly interesting and it can be got very cheap, probably already remainders.

Cheers

Kees

posted by Varese2002 at 4:59 pm (EST) on Apr 9, 2009

Hi Yavor, I saw your question about Albatros and dr. Huth, I will search for it. But AFAIK there are no books expressly devoted to this subject. You hear from me.

Cheers

Kees

posted by Varese2002 at 4:56 pm (EST) on Apr 9, 2009

I can try to get this Volume 1 via ebay.com but probably as all specialist Russian early aviation books circulation may be very low. I am already very lucky that I got Volume 2 !

Cheers

Kees

posted by Varese2002 at 4:19 am (EST) on Jan 25, 2009

Hi Yavor. The second Russian language book I bought via New York (Ebay US) is from Alexandrov. This is a real gem and very interesting too. Research is exhaustive, presentation is in big format (A4), far bigger pictures, drawings etc. Presentation is far better than the smallish Ilya Mourometz book, although the pictures therin are very ineteresting, they are too small. I noted the the Alexandrov book is Volume 2 and that Vol 1 covers the remaining Russian manufacturers. Must be a task to accomplish, to get a copy of that one.

I am a little proud that it is possible to seek in Cyrillic in the catalog of the Russian State Library. The world is shrinking to a format where almost everything seems possible. I even got photocopies of an article by Baranovski from 1881 from the St. Petersburg library. Great, the copies were good, but the originals (microfilms) were bad. I will have to try it again in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris who have paper volumes of that 1881 Russian magazine. So after that I will be able to write a piece about the Kostovitch - Baranovski juxtaposition.

Cheers

Kees

posted by Varese2002 at 2:44 pm (EST) on Jan 23, 2009

Hi Yavor, Today I got two Russian books of which I have now catalogied the first (the one on the Ilya Murometz). I extracted the description from the Russian State Library, but unfortunately it is quite different from yours, so the book has two different descriptions and will not match. What to do?

Cheers

Kees

posted by Varese2002 at 12:05 pm (EST) on Jan 22, 2009