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Title: pilots manuals.....
Post by: hazed- on October 23, 2002, 04:30:18 PM

ok i would like to see if there are any websites that show copies of various aircrafts pilots notebooks or manuals.

Ive seen a few pages reprinted here and there but does anyone have any pics or links so i can look into them a little better?

Any aircraft is acceptable as long as its a fighter and WW2.

particularly russian and german types but also interested in RAF or USAAF planes.

thnx

Title: pilots manuals.....
Post by: funkedup on October 23, 2002, 04:45:30 PM

Almost all of the RAF aircraft manuals are available from Crecy in the UK.  Snafu has some scans of these up on his website.

Title: pilots manuals.....
Post by: funkedup on October 23, 2002, 04:46:09 PM

Verm has my originals of some LW manuals, maybe he will scan them and put them into PDF form?  :)

Title: pilots manuals.....
Post by: hazed- on October 23, 2002, 04:53:38 PM

thnx funked

 what is crecy? a place you have to go? or do you mean a website also?

Title: pilots manuals.....
Post by: funkedup on October 23, 2002, 04:55:42 PM

Crecy are publishers.  I don't know if they sell the manuals directly, but you can buy them from many book shops.  They are titled "Pilot's Notes".

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Post by: Staga on October 23, 2002, 05:27:36 PM

http://www.crecy.co.uk/

I did order Francis Mason's book "The Hawker Hurricane, Illustrated History" from there and book sure is great.

edit: well.. book had some wierd things like Finnish Bf109Fs and that Finns liked their Hurricanes...

Title: pilots manuals.....
Post by: ramzey on October 23, 2002, 06:52:44 PM

try:

http://www.spitcrazy.com/manuals%20and%20technical.htm

here in download u can finde pilot manual for tempest
http://user.tninet.se/~ytm843e/tempest.htm

here u can finde oryginal pictures and infro from Yak3 pilot manual
http://wio.boom.ru/yak3/yak3.htm

ramzey

Title: pilots manuals.....
Post by: Karnak on October 23, 2002, 07:04:44 PM

hazed,

Here is a link to snafu's website with some of the RAF's aircraft handbooks in PDF format:

http://www.btinternet.com/~snaffers/

Title: pilots manuals.....
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on October 23, 2002, 07:29:43 PM

Any book about the Thunderbolt (http://yellowairplane.com/Books_n_Videos/P-47_Books.html)

Including the Manual(http://www.historicaviation.com/historicaviation/Image.po?pn=0001404&size=large)

Title: pilots manuals.....
Post by: Glasses on October 23, 2002, 08:49:45 PM

The Holy Grail of LW manuals....in German :D

http://www.luftfahrt-archiv-hafner.de/Teilliste7-Fw-Tab.htm

Title: pilots manuals.....
Post by: F4UDOA on October 24, 2002, 06:25:28 PM

I have hard copies these manuals

1.F4U-1D

2. F6F-3/5

3. P-47N

4. P-63

5. P-38F through L

Many pages of various manuals can be found at Zeno's here.

Zeno's Warbirds (http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/)

And at the 214th Web page here

http://214th.com/ww2/

But by far the best source for purchasing these manuals is here.

E-Flightmanuals duh!!http://www.eflightmanuals.com/detail/itemList.asp?CategoryGroupID=4

Title: pilots manuals.....
Post by: gripen on October 25, 2002, 06:57:57 AM

Most museums have loads of manuals and copying costs are "sometimes" reasonable. Once I asked Mustang manuals from the RAF Museum (Hendon), got about 15 different versions (From Mustang I to P-51K).

gripen

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Post by: Vermillion on October 25, 2002, 12:38:17 PM

Here is an excellent website with flight manuals, but they're $20 a piece.  They have mostly American/Allied stuff from WWII up to the present.

http://www.eflightmanuals.com

Funked, I would love too, but its a matter of web storage.  Just the selected pages that I keep online for people consumes about 50 megs of my 100 megs of webhosting space. Hehe that 190A8 manual would take over a Gig of space in PDF format! :)

Title: pilots manuals.....
Post by: stantond on October 26, 2002, 07:51:21 PM

Hazed,

I always got a kick out of visiting this site.  US Navy
aircraft.

http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org4-8.htm




Malta

p.s. can't find out much online information about the 'older' versions of the F4U.  Probably because, much like in AH, its performace was poor.  I expect most F4U kills were in the later part of WW2 with the F4U-4 (and the US had numbers).  The F6F data seems applicable.