Best Soaring Book
At 16:56 23 January 2016, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Friday, January 22, 2016 at 11:10:35 PM UTC-5, Burt Compton -
Marfa
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ers, west Texas wrote:
1. "The Art of Soaring Flight" by my Dad's friend, Wolf Hirth
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2. "Kronfeld On Gliding and Soaring"=20
subtitled "The Story of Motorless Human Flight" by Robert
Kronfeld
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(1933.)
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I'm told that only 500 copies of Robert Kronfeld's book were
translated
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nto english. I have two extra copies to sell someday, perhaps at the
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national Vintage Sailplane Meet (IVSM) on Harris Hill near Elmira, NY,
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9 - 16, 2016. I need to thin out my huge collection of vintage books
and
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memorabilia. I'll probably publish an inventory sometime this year
before
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auctioning on eBay.
Since the copyright is expired on these books, what would you think
about
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canning them and putting the .pdf on the Soaring Museum's website? Or
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could sit unread and moldering in private collections.
pdf files exist on Lakes GC site -
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