Overview
Aeronaut Books publishes quality aviation history books for enthusiasts by enthusiasts. It is owned by Jack Herris, founder and former owner of Flying Machines Press (which was sold to another publisher in September 2000).
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Jack Herris has a long history with aviation. His parents started dating while car-pooling together to North American Aviation during WW2. Jack’s father built P-51s, including parts for the first P-51 Mustang ever built, and his mother built B-25s.
In 1971 Jack graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics. He then served as a Naval Aviator, flying P-3B Orion aircraft with VP-46. After leaving the navy he worked in the Laser Fusion Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, then worked in the high tech industry in Silicon Valley. He holds CFI, CFI-I, CFI-ME, ATP, and Learjet type ratings.
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Jack is a long-time member of the League of WWI Aviation Historians, and before that its predecessor the Cross & Cockade Society. He has written more than a dozen articles on WWI aircraft published in their quarterly journal, Over the Front, and has edited several issues of that journal. He has also written more than 30 magazine articles. He brings insight into these aircraft both from his aeronautical engineering background and his military flying experience.
In 1992 he founded Flying Machines Press to publish aviation history books and after publishing a number of titles, sold Flying Machines Press in 2000. He became a repeat offender by starting Aeronaut Books, which published its first new aviation books in November 2010.
Jack has written the following books on WWI aircraft:
1. SPAD Two-Seat Fighters of World War I
2. Aircraft of WWI: 1914–1918
3. Development of German Warplanes in WWI
4. German Seaplane Fighters of WWI
5. Nachtflugzeug! German N-Types of WWI
6. German Armored Warplanes of WWI
7. Pfalz Aircraft of WWI
8. Gotha Aircraft of WWI
9. Germany’s Triplane Craze
10. Germany’s Fighter Competitions of 1918
11. Roland Aircraft of WWI
12. Aviatik Aircraft of WWI
13. Rumpler Aircraft of WWI
14. Siemens-Schuckert Aircraft of WWI
15. German Monoplane Fighters of WWI
16. German G-Type Bombers of WWI
17. German Seaplanes of WWI
18. AEF Aircraft of WWI
19. Genesis of Fighter Aviation in WWI
20. Friedrichshafen Aircraft of WWI
21. Albatros Aircraft of WWI – Volume 1
22. Albatros Aircraft of WWI – Volume 2
23. Albatros Aircraft of WWI – Volume 3
24. Albatros Aircraft of WWI – Volume 4
25. DFW Aircraft of WWI
26. LVG Aircraft of WWI – Volume 1
27. LVG Aircraft of WWI – Volume 2
28. LVG Aircraft of WWI – Volume 3
29. Otto, Ago, & BFW Aircraft of WWI
30. WWI Aircraft Photo Extra 1
31. WWI Aircraft Photo Extra 2
32. Halberstadt Aircraft of WWI – Volume 1
33. Halberstadt Aircraft of WWI – Volume 2
34. Hannover Aircraft of WWI (co-author)
35. Zeppelin-Staaken Aircraft of WWI – Volume 1
36. Zeppelin-Staaken Aircraft of WWI – Volume 2
37. German WWI Aircraft of Minor Manufacturers – Volume 1
38. German WWI Aircraft of Minor Manufacturers – Volume 2
39. Fokker Aircraft of WWI – Volume 1
40. Fokker Aircraft of WWI – Volume 2
41. Fokker Aircraft of WWI – Volume 3
42. Fokker Aircraft of WWI – Volume 4
43. Fokker Aircraft of WWI – Volume 5 (summer 2022)
44. Fokker Aircraft of WWI – Volume 6 (summer 2022)
45. Guide to German Seaplanes of WWI
46. Guide to German B-Types of WWI