ABOUT BJÖRN

 

My primary interest lies with timetables of the piston era, especially from the late thirties to the late fifties. However, ever since I picked up my first timetable in 1960, I have continuously added current material to my collection. Nowadays I have grown somewhat tired of chasing new timetables at airports and city ticket offices or writing to airlines, so I only look for older timetables and the odd and the rare of newer or current ones.

From the late 1970s onwards I have swapped many timetables with a number of collectors. (Thanks Frank - I will always remember your generosity - and Perry for the many packages and boxes you have shipped across the ocean!) The past decade I have kept a lower profile since my duplicates have been difficult to locate, lying in no order in boxes in my store-room. I have had plans to check those boxes, but so far no time.

Early in 2004, Daniel Kusrow and I established The Aeromarine Website, devoted solely to one of the true pioneers of U.S. aviation.

In addition to my interest in civil aviation, I also have a minor interest in ocean liners and over the years I have picked up a number of sailing lists. You will find a selection of them on my site Maritime Timetable Images.

Finally, a big hug to my wife Sylvia and my daughter Henny for having put up with me all these years!

Björn Larsson


Couldn't find a better photo - I am not as pompous as I look.
(Photo: Henny Larsson, May 2000)


Note the light blue ONU letters on this all-white Curtiss C-46 (SE-CFC), captured at Malmö-Bulltofta Airport in 1961, newly-arrived from the Congo for a short "leave", but soon to be back. The owner, Malmö-based charter airline Transair Sweden AB, operated many C-46s on behalf of the United Nations (abbreviated ONU in French) during the Congo crisis in the early sixties.
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(Photo: BL)

View more photos of old pistons (1). (Black-and-white)
View more photos of old pistons (2). (Black-and-white)
View more photos of (mostly) old pistons. (Colour)

 

This page last updated October 1, 2006.