Early Aviation
Discuss World War I and the early years of aviation thru 1934.
Valuable references.
JackFlash
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Posted: Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 07:50 AM UTC
Thanks Mark!

Looks like someone hacked into Peter Leonard's website. I deleted those links.
JackFlash
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Posted: Saturday, August 01, 2009 - 02:41 PM UTC
The great thing about WWI community is we have some really cool people. One such fellow is helping Peter Leonard bring back his website. Most of it can be found here. If it does not load right away click on the word in the lower right corner. "Impatient?"
JackFlash
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Posted: Saturday, August 01, 2009 - 03:57 PM UTC
Here is what we are doing at the Lafayette Foundation / Vintage Aero.
JackFlash
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Posted: Monday, August 31, 2009 - 07:55 AM UTC
We have often talked about Blue Rider / Insignia decals. Here is their URL.

http://www.insigniamag.com
JackFlash
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Posted: Thursday, October 08, 2009 - 07:57 PM UTC
Rosebud's Early Aviation free image site has been revived and now resides at
http://www.earlyaeroplanes.com
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JackFlash
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Posted: Friday, April 09, 2010 - 06:02 AM UTC
Here is an interesting free site on a French unit.

http://albindenis.free.fr/dossiers/plan_site_spa62.html
JackFlash
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Posted: Monday, May 17, 2010 - 01:38 PM UTC
Artist Robert Karr is steeped in aviation research. Some of you might remember his 94th Aero Sqdn 1:48 Nieuport 28 diorama as seen in Windsock?

http://karrart.com/karrart/
JackFlash
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Posted: Sunday, May 30, 2010 - 07:34 AM UTC
Some interesting biplanes in colour.

http://www.blackandwhitebiplane.com/

JackFlash
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Posted: Sunday, June 06, 2010 - 08:51 AM UTC
Here is the Over the Front photo album on facebook.

click here.

http://www.overthefront.com/
JackFlash
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Posted: Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 06:07 AM UTC
Part of Poland brass etched frets now has their own webstore.

http://www.part.pl/

Tom's Modelworks

http://www.tomsmodelworks.com

Here is a list of Vacuform kits that have been manufactured by various companies.

Here.
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JackFlash
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Posted: Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 05:25 PM UTC
Here is the Freightdog webstore. Now selling the Blue Max and Pegasus kits
JackFlash
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Posted: Monday, September 27, 2010 - 02:18 PM UTC
Here is Master Casters website. At £ 18.99 thats about $30.01.

JackFlash
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Posted: Saturday, October 09, 2010 - 01:03 PM UTC
Model Cellar is a great place for various scale WWI aviation figures. They have been featured here in the past. Now here is a straight shot to their current catalog.

http://www.modelcellar.com/prod01.htm
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Posted: Friday, April 08, 2011 - 05:38 PM UTC
Here is a bit of fun. Check out the 1:32 conv. parts he has some resin wicker seats and a simple fix for the WNW Junkers J.I ailerons. He also has some Jenny decals and a kit of the float plane version of the Jenny. Out of stock vacs and etc.

http://www.lonestarmodels.com
JackFlash
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Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 04:33 AM UTC
Here are some informative sites.

Flieger und Luftschiffer 1
Flieger und Luftschiffer 2
Flieger und Luftschiffer 3
JackFlash
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Posted: Friday, August 19, 2011 - 06:53 PM UTC
Over the front on facebook.
dolly15
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Posted: Saturday, August 20, 2011 - 02:53 AM UTC
Or become a lurker !
JackFlash
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Posted: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 01:54 PM UTC
WWI Aero has a very good website.

http://www.ww1aeroinc.org/index.html

Their forum is now closed Nov. 19 2012. The magazine site for WWI Aero & Skyways is still ok.
JackFlash
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Posted: Friday, November 18, 2011 - 05:20 AM UTC
Here is a very interesting site run by a dedicated modeler.

http://www.mincbergr.net/
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Posted: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 04:39 AM UTC
Thanks for the references, in the Lafayette museum maybe going to help in the Mexican WW1 pilots research.

Cheers.

Al
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Posted: Friday, November 25, 2011 - 04:46 PM UTC
The Aeroforum
Here. Closed Nov. 19, 2012.

The best kept secret on the WWW. Literally any subject on Militaria from all ages all subjects.
GMIC

Suisoft kit references by appearance in model magazines. A list of around 19,000 model magazine references gathered over a 30 year period. Kindly made available to the modelling community by Mr. John Loughman, Australia.

http://www.suisoft.co.uk/kitbase/datafiles.htm

http://www.airwar1.org.uk

French docs on captured early Germany aviation subject.
http://www.association14-18.org/documents/aviation/avall.htm
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Posted: Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 05:01 PM UTC
Here are some online shops.

CMK
http://www.cmkkits.com/en/

Karaya
http://www.karaya.pl/en/

Jadar
http://www.jadarhobby.pl

Modelimex
http://www.modelimex.com/

Part of Poland
http://www.part.pl/

Tom's Modelworks
http://www.tomsmodelworks.com

Neomega / Vector Aeroscale - Member & Advertizer!
http://neomega-resin.com/vector/ww1.htm

Roden store Good plastic kits and regular review sample contributor
http://rodenkits.com/

WWIshop - good service . . . wwishop
http://www.wwishop.com/

Taurus Models Fine resin & PE engines and details
http://www.taurusmodels.pl/

Model Cellar Fine resin figures & busts - Aeroscale Member
http://www.modelcellar.com/

Vector cut items. tools nuts & washers various sizes.
http://vectorcut.com/ Seen here. at Aeroscale.

Colophon Books See their aviation section!
http://www.colophonbooks.com


Brian L Fawcett Resin kit correction parts & figure sets.
Fawcett models & patterns
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Posted: Sunday, May 27, 2012 - 03:45 PM UTC
Here is a bit of fun from a modeler identified as "Stevenf".

Aircraft type: Model (where relevant): Magazine: Month/Year

Albatros D.II drawings Aeromodeller July 1961
Sopwith Tabloid drawings Aeromodeller Dec 1961
Avro 504N 504K Airfix July 1967
2F.1 Camel Camel Airfix Dec 1967
DH 9 DH 4 Airfix Feb 1968
DH 9A DH 4 Airfix March
DH 4 colours Airfix April
DH 4 variants/colours Airfix May
Lozenge camouflage Airfix Sept/Oct
Avro 504 colours Airfix Jan/Feb 1969
Fokker Dr.I colours/drawings Airfix July/Aug/Oct
Sopwith Baby 504K Airfix Nov
Capt. Brown's Camel Airfix Dec
Cierva C8R 504K Airfix Feb 1970
DH 4A DH 4 Airfix March
Fokker D.VIII Dr.I + card Airfix Jan 1971
Hanriot HD 1 Camel Airfix July
Hanriot HD 1 markings/colours Scale Models Oct 1977
Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter 504/DH 4 SM April 1972
Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter 504/RE8 SM Feb 1981
Jasta 5 markings (Albatros) Airfix Nov 1971
Pfalz D.III markings SM May 1972
DH 2 plans SM June
FE 8 DH 4/504 Airfix June
Fokker D.VI Dr.I/D.VII Airfix July
Albatros D.V/D.Va Revell D.III /Airfix DV SM Sept
Roland C.II Roland C.II SM June 1974
Etrich Taube Airframe vacuform SM Sept
Rumpler C.IV 2 x Hannover SM Feb 1975
Avro 504K 504K SM May
DH 9 DH 4 SM Oct
Gotha G.IV drawings/notes SM Feb/March 1975
Gotha G.V drawings/notes SM April
Bleriot XI plans Airfix April 1976
BE 2c DH 4 SM June
Camel nightfighters Camel/Dr I Airfix Sept
Pfalz D.III/IIIa Aurora SM Nov/Dec
FE 2b Card/scratch SM March 1977
Albatross B.I drawings SM July 1978
Albatross B.II drawings SM Sept
Albatross B.III drawings SM Nov
Pfalz D.III drawings/colours PAM News Oct/Nov
Fokker D.VII drawings/colours PAM News Dec/Jan 1979
Sopwith Camel drawings/colours PAM News Feb
Albatros C.I drawings SM Jan
Albatros C.III drawings SM March
Albatross C.V/16 SM May
Fokker E.V colours SM May
Albatross C.V/17 drawings SM July
Avro 504K colours PAM News Aug
Albatross C.VII drawings SM Sept
Albatross C.IX drawings SM Nov
Vickers Vimy Frog/Novo PAM News Jan 1980
Albatros C.X drawings SM Jan
Albatros C.XII drawings SM March
Albatros C.XV SM May
RFC Spads feature SM June
Albatross J.I drawings SM July
Albatross J.II drawings SM Sept
Pfalz D.III Warbirds Vacuform SM Oct
Bristol Scout 504K Airfix Dec
Nieuport 10 drawings SM Feb 1981
Fokker D.VIII drawings SM March
Nieuport 11 drawings/article Revell N17 SM April
Halberstadt CL.II Formaplane vacuform SM May
Nieuport 12 drawings SM June
Albatross D.XI Veeday SM July
Siemens Schuchert D.I/III/IV drawings/article SM July
Nieuport 17 plans Revell N17 SM Aug
Junkers D.I Warbirds vacuform SM Oct
Nieuport 27 Revell N17 SM Oct
Nieuport 28 Revell N28 SM Dec
Pfalz D.III Veeday Airfix Jan 1982
Staaken R.VI Contrail Vacuform SM Feb/April
Spad VII drawings SM June
Albatros D.III drawings SM Aug
DH 5 Camel SM Dec
Hansa-Brandenburg W.29 drawings SM Feb 1983

We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the modelers that have gone before and preserved this kit specific research for us.