Michael Denman
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1956 Instructors Handbook predates FAA.
Cool flight manual
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Timbeck2
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I've got a POH for a B-24 Liberator and all the flight manuals for a Boeing 727.
Not a one upper, just reminded that I have them.
Not a one upper, just reminded that I have them.
Michael Denman
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Awesome! My brother scored this for me. Always enjoy vintage aviation.
Zeldman
Touchdown! Greaser!
Somewhere in storage I have a whiz wheel computer for a B-17.
NoHeat
Final Approach
Does it look mostly the same as newer ones?
Zeldman
Touchdown! Greaser!
I'm guessing you mean a E6B whiz wheel. The one I have for a B-17 is just a round one. It has more than one function but I don't remember all that it does right now.
It is packed away somewhere in a box as we are preparing to move across town hopefully sometime in the first week in May.
Shepherd
Final Approach
Here is a my Dad's Logbook, from 1947, his "Regulations for Pilots" and "Patter for elementary Flight Maneuvers" from 1943.
I used "Patter" as a reference when I started flying in 1964.
I still think it's one of the best manuals ever written.
I used "Patter" as a reference when I started flying in 1964.
I still think it's one of the best manuals ever written.
denverpilot
Tied Down
It would be nifty if some of these were scanned and put online somewhere so they don't disappear in the sands of time.
kgruber
Final Approach
Some time ago, I was looking at a Boeing Stratocruiser Pilot's Manual. For takeoff procedure it said:
Takeoff..........Normal
Takeoff..........Normal
bnt83
Final Approach
Now the approved Flight Manual is 500 pages and the non-approved Performance Manual is 500 pages too.
Art VanDelay
Pattern Altitude
Thinking in terms of the classic tome "Stick and Rudder" that 1956 manual is probably every bit as good if not better than what we have today.
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I'm still unpacking books from our recent move, but one of them is the Zweng Instrument Flying Manual, 1940 edition.
OkieFlyer
En-Route
A bit off topic, but I happened to be watching a documentary about Spitfires last night, and the old timers were telling about when the Spits were delivered to their aerodrome for training. They were basically told the basic V speeds by the guy that delivered it and told that they'd get a feel everything else once they get up in the air. Great training! These guys won the Battle of Britain going straight from 100 hp biplanes to as little as 9-10 hours in the first monoplane they'd ever seen, which happened to be over 1000 hp, without so much as a proper manual! Badasses.
The seat of your pants is sometimes the best instructor.
denverpilot
Tied Down
The ones that survived. Look up the WWII training fatal accident rates sometime. It's sobering. Poor kids.
Give me Operations,
Way out in some lonely atoll,
For I'm too young to die,
I just wanna grow old...
It's said that Hoover, when he was doing the test flights for aircraft that were uncrated, bolted together, and then handed to him to make sure nothing was wrong, had so many engine failures PER DAY, that it is one of the major reasons he became so good at energy management and landing airplanes exactly where he wanted to put them. Or he'd be dead.
