Andy Ross wrote: > Christian Mayer wrote: > >>Shouldn't you then be able to get these documents easily by the >>freedom of information act? > > > I dunno, I've never made a FOIA request. But from what I've been led > to believe it's a very slow, bureaucratic process. And in this case > it will be complicated because of the fact that the documents were (I > assume) originally classified. They might very well *still* be > officially classified if nothing has happened to change things. The > ones that are available on the market are, I would guess, photocopies > of versions that diffused out of the military over time and were never > challenged. > > Basically, I honestly don't know, and don't have the patience to find > out. That's why I'm generally grateful to folks like > eflightmanuals.com for bothering to collect this stuff for posterity, > even if it involves a ridiculous proprietary encryption scheme. > > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d >
FOIA is for documents that the US government doesn't want to release. For an old POH I would just go to the National Archives in College Park, which is about half an hour away. Problem is, the version of the Canberra that I'm interested in was never flown by the USAF. Besides, dealing with the archives isn't exactly painless either. Really, the least painful option would be to put in a few extra hours at work and then order a hard copy from the same guys (actually, someone else has a hardcopy for sale that is even closer to what I want, British instead of Australian). I'm pretty sure I would be happy with that service. I'm just perennially annoyed by DRM. If I had know I would have bought paper. Josh _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
