On Friday 09 February 2007 13:47, Josh Babcock wrote: > http://www.vintageaircraft.org/news/2007%20-%2002_06%20-%20FAA%20Attempts%2 >0to%20Loosen%20Grip%20on%20Abandoned%20Vintage%20Aircraft%20Data.html > > Sorry for the long URL. > > Josh
That _is_ good news. Sorta related, well, concerning 'older' aircraft anyway... My mother, on her trips around the local street market, found a lot of old RAF Flying Review magazines on one of the 'paperback' stalls. They date from around the early 1960's and quite apart from some of the amazing advertisments i.e. Ariel, BSA, Royal Enfield and Triumph motor cycles priced between 180-300 UKP :) there are some fascinating articles, especially when read with the benefit of hindsight. For example, one article discusses the Bristol type 188, which had just started it's flight trials and was intended for mach three research and which we now know was quite a failure. The latest thing my mother found is an "Aeroplane" Aircraft Identification booklet (part four - American Types for the RAF). I can't see any publication date anywhere but the forward, by Peter G. Masefield, is dated 1941 and discusses 'plans to deliver to the RAF 500 four-motor bombers of the Fortress and Liberator types during each month of 1942'. I also noticed that the B-29 Washington isn't included in the booklet, so it looks as though it might actually date from 1941 or early 1942 and almost certainly before the B-29 was aquired by the RAF. Generally, each aircraft included has four (halftone) photographs, a 5-view drawing (side, top, bottom, front, rear) accompanied by a short description, history and specs. The drawings are a bit too small for working from and are 'negatives' in that each view is a silhouette with details picked out in white but could be usefuil for clarifying details, especially re the rear view. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
