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Enciclopedia de la Aviación Militar Española

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The ‘Enciclopedia de la Aviación Militar Española’ was a part-work encyclopedia of Spanish military aviation. It was issued in a total of 130 parts by Quiron Ediciones, Spain. Frequency of publication not known. 20 A4 pages in each issue. Availability: news-stand. Issues per Year: unknown First Year: around 2000. Last Year: 2012. Language: Spanish.

Posted on November 05, 2012 by Roberto Plà on http://robertopla.net/blog/enciclopedia-aviacion-militar-detenida.htm
The Encyclopedia of Spanish Military Aviation stops its publication
The news reaches me that with issue 130, the "Encyclopedia of Spanish Military Aviation" interrupts its edition. A real shame because it is a magnificent work in which editorial excellence apparently has not found an economic reality or a project management prone to its culmination. Although the departure of part of the editorial team to found their own suggested something like this, the vicissitudes of the publication of the encyclopedia mean that it does not surprise most of its followers either.
I was a subscriber and at the same time I participated as an author with the preparation of an article (On the emblems of the units of the Alert and Control network). I am proud to have participated in one of the most ambitious, complete and best-elaborated projects in our aeronautical publishing history, but it was written that it would be an unfinished project, I think partly because of its ambitious horizon but also because of the approaches and management .
The proposals were that the encyclopedia was the project of some 'aerotrastornados' who have a publishing house. It was not a business but an illusion. Publishing aeronautical books in Spain is difficult and in some cases I have been told about books that had more sales in Australia than in Spain…. So any savvy businessman would go to Australia… or Hong Kong to edit instead of taking the risks of continuing to do so in this wasteland of aviation culture.

Shortly after this message Quiron Ediciones bound the first 120 issues of the encyclopedia firmly into six large volumes with a total of 2022 pages. The front and rear covers of the original issues were discarded, so that left 16 pages of the original 20 for each chapter. That way it was also easier to combine more issues of a single subject. No doubt this was done to recoup part of their loss on the project.
To me, these six volumes belong to the most beautiful and best researched aviation books I have ever seen in my life. Full color photography is used wherever possible, large general arrangement drawings, hundreds of full color profiles.
Volumes 1, 2 and the first half of volume three are devoted to an in-depth history of Spanish military and naval aviation from its origins to the present day. The encyclopedic part on the various aircraft used during that time starts in the second half of volume 3 on page 737 with the Adaro 1. E-7 Chirta biplane (I had never heard of it before either…) and ends in volume 6 on page 2022 with the Cierva C.19 Mk.IV autogiro.

Price: €205,- (Incl. shipping costs within The Netherlands)

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