My copy arrived yesterday and I spent a couple of hours browsing last night. A real treasure trove of info.... a few pages in produced a twin-hull Junkers model photo (see attachment), a series on German 1920's gliders competing at Wasserflug gliding events, not to mention the period adverts (particularly taken by the series of ads for the Parnall Puffin).
The scans are generally from bound editions so each PDF covers a few issues with 500-650 pages in each file.
Pros:
- Very cheap with free postage (less than a fiver on Ebay)
- Readable
- Fairly comprehensive coverage (1912-1922)
- Great contemporary analysis
- Some great advertisments
- Many new types that I had never come across
- Great feel when reading articles
- Like the Flight Archive it is partially searchable by words (mis-interpretations do occur due to fonts/printing)
Cons:
- No hard cover with my copy
- Not professional - the white disc was marked in black marker pen - you get what you pay for
- Will take years to read !
- Early page feature browning through aging - but still are readable!
- No Volume 1 (1911) and some periods absent see Capture2 file below
Overall - a bargain for a real chunk of early aviation history.
Example of a Junkers word search attached along with the DVD contents and sample layout cover page.
