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P47s Tough Old Bird!
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YakkoWarner
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Kind of like the modern A10 - not made for physical beauty, but absolutely effective for what it was built to do and with a very high survivability factor.
So that is at least 2 airplanes which landed with only one wing... An Israel Air Force F15 landed after a mid air collisions which nocked off one wing and as the pilot said it's highly likely that if I had seen it clearly I would have ejected, because it was obvious you couldn't really fly an airplane like that."
1983 Negev mid-air collision - Wikipedia
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Like many of its contemporaries the P-47 was shipped overseas, partially assembled, in a huge wooden crate that was also used -- along with a set of tools that was provided -- to assemble the aircraft at destination. This book showed the small team of mechanics exactly how to do so.
I find manuals of this period to be fascinating because they were written by engineers with the purpose of explaining, and tried to be as concise as possible, while being as complete as possible. As opposed to modern manuals which tend to be hundreds of pages written by lawyers with the intent of obfuscation, and avoiding liability, while explaining nothing.
Erica
I find manuals of this period to be fascinating because they were written by engineers with the purpose of explaining, and tried to be as concise as possible, while being as complete as possible. As opposed to modern manuals which tend to be hundreds of pages written by lawyers with the intent of obfuscation, and avoiding liability, while explaining nothing.
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My Canon R5 camera manual is 931 pages! No, I haven't read the whole thing yet.
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I have a reprint of an owners manual for a Piper J3C-65, circa 1946, 28 pages. Of which 5 are the front and back covers, photographs, and the index. The Army 01- (for all L-4 models) is likewise 28 pages... But Piper dropped the Form 510 and Form 512 in favor of pictures. The Army erection, maintenance, and repair manual is only 50 pages. And all three are in English, not mumbo-jumbo!
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Afreed, I LOVE old manuals of that era - and even later. A few years ago (BC - before Covid) I was at a car show/swap meet and there was a huge table of manuals - obviously acquired as a massive job lot - they wanted $5 a book and it took every bit of will I had to walk away with only the Vauxhall manual I needed (Actually I didn't need it it was for the 1600 engine which isn't in my car
) but there were some great books available.
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Did someone say "manuals"?
Just a tiny bit of the thousands of military and commercial aviation manuals (technical documents, erection and maintenance, POH, systems, parts, modifications, etc.) we have in our library, most from the 1920s to the 1970s.
Hamilton-Standard Super-Hydromatic prop anyone?
Tom M.
Just a tiny bit of the thousands of military and commercial aviation manuals (technical documents, erection and maintenance, POH, systems, parts, modifications, etc.) we have in our library, most from the 1920s to the 1970s.
Hamilton-Standard Super-Hydromatic prop anyone?
Tom M.
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Oh geez, don't give JP any more bait!
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I was in-charge of editing of the text and illustrations for the Structural Repair Manual for the Grumman EA-6B.
Must have taken 5 years and the contract was transferred to about 5 different companies.
I had to make sure every word meant what was intended and every illustration told the story.
When Grumman was putting together the Tom Cat it wasn't as much fun.
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true. MUST NOT BUY....Oh geez, don't give JP any more bait!
Erica
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Things moved quicker before computers -- okay... sure... it took 100 guys with drafting tables and 100 gals with typewriters and a team operating an actual printing press, but it went quicker. The AP-4 was proposed in 1939, developed into three DIFFERENT P-47 prototypes in 1940, first flown, purchased by the Army and the first delivery made in 1941, that manual was published in 1943, and the production run of 15.636 units was completed before the end of 1945.
Erica