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10-22-2008, 12:27 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Vantaa (He)
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| Hello! My name is Paolo Miana, I'm an Italian aviation writer. I'm in contact with the sons of Gianni Caproni, and with their help I'm trying to start a virtual bookstore. Actually I'm copying original Italian manuals and selling my own book. In the near future I hope to be able to start some collaboration projects to promote compared analisys on aviation topics. You could find more info in my website www.avioebooks.com Hope you find something interesting! Cheers Paolo |
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10-22-2008, 12:45 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer   Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| Welcome to the forum Paolo!!
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10-22-2008, 12:54 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: In my Igloo in Canada
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| Welcome from the great white north of Canada, enjoy yourself here and if you have any questions im sure one of use around here can help you out with it
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10-22-2008, 02:39 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2008
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| Hello Paolo, and welcome from England. |
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10-22-2008, 02:46 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Vantaa (He)
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| Hi everyone, first I would like to thank you for the warm welcome.... than I just jump in the technical/flight test data section. I've seen in the Bf.110 topic that there are some different point of view about manuals selling. Having yet experienced the approach of some others sellers in this field  , I guess is better for me to spent a little few words about my idea and about my projects.Yes, I'm selling manuals too, some of them are free of copyright and you could find them for free in some public archives (like the Air Ministry in Rome) some other comes from the Caproni private collection. and the Caproni family is owner of the copyright too (I guess that could be hard find some of them elsewhere). They gave these documents to me in order to obtain more visibility for the work of their father. Yes, I'm asking money for the manuals but I would like to explain that these funds goes (better will go) just to cover (a little part of) the travel expensis (I'm in Finland, the archive is in Italy). During my travels I collect also documentation for an Italian museum (that hopefully will receive my collection once fully open), a Slovenian restoration group (that is working on a flying Nieuport 17 replica) and some ongoing projects (a comparative study of WWI air war on Italian/AustroHungarian front and a book about WWI aviation technology and aricraft performances). This obviously for free. I hope that in the near future this activity allows me to publish more books (and possibly to not lose money, as in the case of my first two), encourage people to start writing or helps some other groups in restoration projects. All this, just to say that is not for everyone just a matter of money..... Paolo |
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10-22-2008, 02:53 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas, Tx
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| Welcome to the site.
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10-22-2008, 03:55 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Jersey
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10-23-2008, 07:01 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust.
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| G'day Paolo, welcome! 
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10-23-2008, 07:02 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: billingham nr middlesbrough uk
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| welcome paolo
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10-23-2008, 08:02 AM
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| "World Traveller"  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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10-23-2008, 06:58 PM
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| Siggy Master   Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Poland
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| Hello Paolo, Welcome to the site.Greetings from Poland.
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