Siemens-Schuckert Aircraft of WWI: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes: Volume 12 (Great War Aviation Centennial Series) - Softcover

Herris, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193588123X ISBN 13: 9781935881230

Publisher: Aeronaut Books, 2014

Synopsis

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, eight SSW aircraft types and one guided missile are illustrated in either 1/72 (1 aircraft) or 1/48 (7 aircraft & the missile) scale drawings. The book has 208 letter-size (8.5”x11”) pages and is of interest to aviation historians, enthusiasts, and modelers alike.

About this title

About the Author:

Jack Herris has a long history with aviation. His parents started dating while car-pooling together to North American Aviation during WW2. Jack’s father built P-51s, including parts for the first P-51 Mustang ever built, and his mother built B-25s. In 1971 Jack graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics. He then served as a Naval Aviator, flying P-3B Orion aircraft with VP-46. After leaving the navy he worked in the Laser Fusion Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, then worked in the high tech industry in Silicon Valley. He holds CFI, CFI-I, CFI-ME, ATP, and Learjet type ratings. Jack is a long-time member of the League of WWI Aviation Historians, and before that the Cross & Cockade Society, and has written more than a dozen articles on WWI aircraft published in their quarterly journal, Over the Front and has edited several issues of that journal. He brings insight into these aircraft both from his engineering and military pilot experience. In 1992 he founded Flying Machines Press to publish aviation history books and after publishing a number of titles, sold Flying Machines Press in 2000. He became a repeat offender by starting Aeronaut Books, which published its first two new aviation books in November 2010. For more information, see the website at www.aeronautbooks.com. Jack has written the following books on WWI aircraft: SPAD Two-Seat Fighters of World War I, Aircraft of WWI: 1914–1918, Development of German Warplanes in WWI, German Seaplane Fighters of WWI, Nachtflugzeug! German N-Types of WWI, German Armored Warplanes of WWI, Pfalz Aircraft of WWI, Gotha Aircraft of WWI, Germany’s Triplane Craze, Germany’s Fighter Competitions of 1918, Roland Aircraft of WWI, Aviatik Aircraft of WWI, Rumpler Aircraft of WWI, and Siemens-Schuckert Aircraft of WWI.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aeronaut Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 193588123X
• ISBN 13: 9781935881230
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Illustrator: Pearson Bob, Weaver Aaron, Anderson Steve