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2-2-A-M-1.......THE SERVICE OF INFORMATION (SIGNAL CORPS).....By Brig. Gen. George Scriven, Chief Signal Officer of the Army.....1915...printed in Washington at the Gov't Printing Office........Circular No. 8, Office of the Chief Signal Officer........most fascinating book regarding early century US Army Signal Corps ...... while outlining the entire corps, Scriven includes chapter soley on Air Craft.........he wisely comments ' The signal corps is intrusted with the air service of the army, undoubtably the most important, as it is the most recent, auxiliary in the collection and transmission of military information' .....specific information included throughout book, division size, officer alotment, detachment specs. such as number of horses(!), telephones, etc ....... the first official US Military use of airplanes.......pre-WWI manuals such as this are difficult to find..... early style cloth weave hardbound, 6" by 8" in very good condition, with 179 pages and dated 1915.............$80
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3-7-A-M-1.........SIGNAL CORPS TRAINING MANUAL, PART 1 AVIATION SECTION OF SIGNAL CORPS 1917.......6" by 9" softcover manual contains 70 pages divided into 13 Chapters including 'Assembling, Erecting and Aligning of Airplanes', Instruments, Compasses, Care of Airplane Hangars, Care of Airplanes,Internal Combsution Engines, Repair of Airplanes and organization of Workshops'........some diagrams in book too, along with and Appendix of Aeronautical Nomenclature with terms I have never heard of before.........who knows what a 'Vol-Pique' is? ..this manual was apparently one in series for US Army Signal Corps, this one being the entire Aviation Section of the series......90 year old original in excellent condition......$145
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| 4-36-A-M-1.........WWI FIGHTER PLANE.......Not sure what this is (no, I didn't look in the above book yet!) but it appears a French Parasol design with large in-line liquid cooled engine......take a look at some of the fuel/oil cans, and step-ladder near the plane, all look about the same age, I am estimating 1918 or so.......appears a personal photo, printed on weave paper with no writing or markings, and measures 3' by 4.5" in very good condition .....very old photo, yours for.........$15 |
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5-67-A-M-1......FRENCH-JAPANESE NIEUPORT 81E.2 WWI BIPLANE WING RIB JIG........This is not a toy or replica, this is a real wooden tool known as a 'jig' that is used as a master shape to build the wooden wing rib for this Nieuport, much like a canoe hull is shaped.......wooden jig was constructed by a well known antique airplane restorer in the 1980's when he was contacted by the Torosawa Japanese Aviation Museum to build an exact replica of the plane that the Japanese purchased 40 models of in 1919 as a military trainer......jig measures 40" long, 12" high and about 1" thick.....the exact airfoil shape and wing spar cutout are built into the jig.....this was used to build the lower wing ribs for the plane shown here.....jig is varnished and ready to hang on the wall......quite impressive, and you will not see another one like it.......very good condition........$48
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