1944 Joint Fighter Conference

Conslaw · Sep 18, 2023

As an official government document, the actual text should be in the public domain. The publisher of the print version can copyright unique content added to the print edition.

GregP · Sep 18, 2023

Yes, but you still have to pay the people who actually print and bind it ...

Conslaw · Sep 19, 2023

GregP said:
Yes, but you still have to pay the people who actually print and bind it ...

No argument on that point.

33k in the air · Sep 21, 2023

GregP said:
Yes, but you still have to pay the people who actually print and bind it ...

At least until it becomes officially digitized and made available online through the appropriate historical archive/website.

bf109xxl · Sep 21, 2023

33k in the air said:
At least until it becomes officially digitized and made available online through the appropriate historical archive/website.

An unofficial copy has become available two years ago, which I just discovered today. Seems that you guys underestimate the scale of book piracy.

GTX · Sep 21, 2023

Juha3 said:
I think it was Harald Penrose, the chief test pilot of Westland from 1931 to mid 50s, also a naval architect and an aviation author, e.g. multi-volume history of the British aircraft industry British Aviation. I specially liked his memoirs, the title was something like Adventure with Fate IIRC.

Agree 100% His writing style is very nice.

drgondog · Sep 21, 2023

bf109xxl said:
An unofficial copy has become available two years ago, which I just discovered today. Seems that you guys underestimate the scale of book piracy.

I don't - a Russia based website pirated a pdf copy of Bastard Stepchild in 2021 and offered free download. Osprey (theoretically) shut the distribution down with stern words but I doubt anythig came of them.

bf109xxl · Sep 21, 2023

drgondog said:
I don't - a Russia based website pirated a pdf copy of Bastard Stepchild in 2021.

In 2020.

GrauGeist · Sep 21, 2023

bf109xxl said:
In 2020.

The book was first published about two years ago (late summer 2020).

As crafty as the Russians are, I don't think they're that fast...

33k in the air · Sep 21, 2023

bf109xxl said:
An unofficial copy has become available two years ago, which I just discovered today. Seems that you guys underestimate the scale of book piracy.

Well, yes, sailing the high seas is always an option, albeit one fraught with ethical and security issues.

drgondog · Sep 22, 2023

bf109xxl said:
In 2020.

Conceivably, they could have swiped the .pdf in 2020 when it was sent to India to produce. That said, do you know specifically that it was 'available' in 2020?

bf109xxl · Sep 23, 2023

drgondog said:
Conceivably, they could have swiped the .pdf in 2020 when it was sent to India to produce. That said, do you know specifically that it was 'available' in 2020?

I just looked at the posting date - it was in November, 2020. The pdf is not a scanned copy - it is highly likely that it was a "leakage".

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