Photo:Dennis Crenshaw holding an original C.A.A. Dellschau Aero Drawing. PHOTO CREDIT: Pete Navarro. Source: Secrets of Dellschau (C) 2009.
Thank’s to my very close friend Tim Cridland AKA Zamora the Torture King for sending me this link. He knew I’d like it. After all I did team up with Pete Navarro to write the book on Pete’s research on the subject, “The Secrets of Dellschau” (See Below). . . . EDITOR
From The Design Observer Group By John Foster
Posted 03.17.13
Sometime in the mid-1960s, a junk dealer in Houston, Texas acquired 12 large notebooks that had been thrown out to the curb after a house fire. Filled with mysterious, double-sided, collaged watercolor drawings, the journals were eventually discovered at the junk shop in 1969 by art history student Mary Jane Victor. Victor attended the University of St. Thomas in Houston, where she worked with art patron Dominique de Menil. After telling Menil about the books, Menil purchased four of the notebooks for the (then) hefty sum of $1,500, and included them immediately in an exhibition at Rice University in Houston. Pete Navarro, a local graphic artist and mystery enthusiast, upon seeing the exhibition — eventually acquired the remaining books, studying them obsessively for more than 15 years. Navarro eventually sold the remaining books to museums and galleries. . . . Read Complete Report w/Color copies of many of Dellschau’s Drawings.
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Secrets of Dellschau
by Dennis Crenshaw & Pete Navarro
NOTE: Do NOT buy the book direct from me over www.thesecretsofdellschau.com I am out of stock.
You can still get the book at Amazon.com. But hurry they are selling fast!
Book Reviews from Amazon:
Much has been written about the so-called modern-era of Ufology, namely that which was kick-started by Kenneth Arnold’s now historic (or infamous, depending on your perspective) “flying saucer” encounter over the Cascade Mountains, Washington State, in the summer of 1947.
But what of earlier years? Certainly, there have been some very good works on the Ghost-Rocket mystery that swamped Scandinavia in 1946; and the Foo-Fighters of the Second World War.
And there have been some intriguing works that deal with the so-called “Phantom Airships” of the late-1800s. But, on this latter issue, none are quite like The Secrets of Dellschau by Dennis Crenshaw (in collaboration with Pete Navarro).
As well as being written fluently, and in a very descriptive style that flows and entertains, the book has at its heart a fascinating tale, and an even more fascinating character: a man named Charles A. A. Dellschau, for whom the word “enigma” was surely created. . . . Read Complete Review
Before I read this book I was unaware of Dellschau and the Aero Club. Very detailed research that reads as a detective story. What were those mysterious airships in the skies of the 1800s? Did they have the secret to anti-gravity? Who were the members of the Aero Club, a secret society of aeronautic scientists? Read the book and decide for yourself. Highly recommended.
