Greetings Loyal Airmen, we certainly have some really great news to share with all of you this week, so buckle up and let's get to it.

                
Ever since we launched Airship 27 Productions almost six years ago, we have been constantly asked when our great pulp novels and anthologies were going to be available digitally for the new crop of fancy E-readers now sweeping the market.  Although we were always receptive to the idea, the problem lay in the technology simply not being user friendly to our books. The problem was to get our files to be read by these new contraptions, we had to convert them to different formats which always ended up leaving out the artwork.  That was never acceptable to us, as the covers and interior illustrations are a huge part of what make our quality pulp books. Well time marches on as they say and over the past few months a radical change has made it possible for our books to actually translate completely.  You see the new model E-readers now all have the capability of downloading and reading the very popular PDF files.  These are the very same files we use to design and produce all our books.  So a few weeks ago, Art Director Rob Davis opened a digital store where he is systematically posting our Airship 27 titles as pdfs and making them available for sale at $3 each.  All anyone need do is buy a pdf, downloard it to their E-reader and voila, you have the entire Airship 27 title complete with color covers and black and white interior illustrations. To date we have four books on the site.  Hopefully within a few months our entire catalog will be there and all of you with these E-readers will be able to read our books on them.  To visit our new Digital Hangar, simply click on to the familiar dirigible logo to the left of this column, which will bring you to our familiar on-line store.  Read the top paragraphs carefully, as in them you will find the link (highlighted in red) to the new Digital Store.  Simply click on it and away you go.  Please, tell your friends about this. This is big.

          
And now for the second big news of the week.  Thanks to the urging of our son Alan, the compiling and scanning of artwork by Rob Davis and the PC know-how of our son Scott, MR.JIGSAW, MAN OF A THOUSAND PARTS now has his own official website!!!  This was a long time coming and we are really thrilled and excited to have this up and running.  To check it out, simply go to our Links page, scroll down to the picture of Jiggy & Buck and click on it.  The site itself has an intro on Jiggy, a link to the Air Chief's homebase, right here and another to Redbud Studio where all our Jiggy comics are sold.  Please check it out and let us know what you think?

Last week posted the progress of this comic cover showing off the wonderful inks of Rhian Engel over Rob Davis' fantastic pencils.  Above is the third stage of development, the beautiful colors added by artist Mark Saxton.  We were truly taken by this vibrancy of these colors and the cover reminds us of the comics we use to buy and read growing up.

And finally Rob added Twilight Star company logo and the comic's main title designed by our artist pal Mark Maddox and voila, it is complete!!  And the Air Chief could not be any happier.  Right now we're told the book should be out by the start of summer.  It will feature five of our stories by five different and super talented artists.  You do not want to miss it, Loyal Airmen.  And as Twilight Star is a small, independent company, you will not be seeing this sold in comic shop, but only on-line. As soon as we know it is available, we'll post it right here to include the link to the site.  And of course, with fingers crossed, the Air Chief will have copies at the various conventions we attend this year.  Stay tuned.

There you have it, Loyal Airmen, never a dull minute here at Hangar 27.  Thanks as ever for dropping by, stay warm, read a good book, preferably one of our pulps and we'll see you all here next week.
Ron – Over & Out!