Jasta Colors: Volume 1

Published: February 13, 2021
Book Author(s): Bruno Schmäling in collaboration with Jörn Leckscheid
Company: Aeronaut Books

This first volume of a multi-volume set is going to excite a lot of people. In addition to the photos and color plates of these aircraft, historic documents such as flight rosters, vintage newspaper clippings, hand-drawn sketches and flight line photos are included in this highly visual presentation of German WWI aircraft markings.

The book is beautifully printed on quality paper and begins by explaining the research done by both Schmäling and Leckschid over a period of many years. According to the publisher, Schmälling (a former modeler) started interviewing the old pilots in 1974 when he was in high school and has continued his research to the present. In 1976 he started working with Alex Imrie, the most well-known early researcher into the German air service, to document the… more