Heh...they were still doing that in the 80's. I remember timidly asking
Grumman for some info on the F-14. I was pretty suprised when a package came
with a bunch of color 8x10's of every plane Grumman made, among other things.
I then went on a letter writting jag, to pretty much every airplane mfg in the
country (along with anyone else who had a cool looking ad in Aviation Week).
Soon I was inundated with photos, 3-views and posters, and literature, often of
obsure (to me) products. The strangest of which was a poster with a map of
Soviet air defenses (I think from Honeywell or Rand).
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Deck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Dec 10, 2004 1:21 PM
To: RCSE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [RCSE] Discontinued P-38 and a question
I'm older and can remember, as a grade school youngster, writing for
Fairchild for information on the "Flying Boxcar" and receiving about a pound
of great photos and details. I got these from Northrop as well - wish I
still had the stuff. Nowadays, I guess I'd get referred to the company's
merchandise web site. But that was back when industry was still encouraging
young people to become engineers rather than exporting jobs.
Off my soapbox,
Jim Deck
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