Ole Nikolajsen
Born in 1943 in Denmark, Ole Nikolajsen is a dedicated aviation person, and has had a long career with flying. He started his pilot training in the Royal Danish Air Force in 1963 and served until 1969 as a navigator in the rescue and transport squadrons, acquiring 2000 flying hours. Then he continued training as an Air Traffic Control Officer and worked as such in Denmark, Malaysia, Abu Dhabi and Oman. In 1990 he organized a new training school in Oman and in 1992 he became leader of the Swiss Controller Training School. He worked as the leader of training concept developments and training quality control with the DFS in Germany and has been retired in France since 2002. While in the RDAF, Ole Nikolajsen published the history of 721 Squadron. In the seventies he edited, the aviation publication DANMIL, well known in Denmark. Having lived in Türkiye for some years as a school boy, he has much affection for this country and has thoroughly researched its largely unknown aviation history. In 2005 his book on “Turkish Military Aircraft since 1912” was published in English. Since then he has continued working on his Turkish Aviation trilogy with manuscripts on “Ottoman Aviation 1912-1919” and “85 years Civilian Aircraft in Türkiye 1925-2010”. Ole Nikolajsen is well known in international aviation historian circles and has published numerous articles on aviation history both in Danish, English and German. This book on the occasion of the 100 years anniversary of Turkish military aviation is the culmination of 35 years of research on the subject. Ole Nikolajsen is married and has two married children one living in the USA and one in Denmark.
Books
- The History of Turkish Military Aircraft Volume 1 : From Inception to the War of Independence 1912-1923 Author
