1-2-B-O-1...........1937 WACO CUSTOM CABIN PARTS PRICE LIST........ For the ZGC-7 - DGC-7 - EGC-7 .......23 page original manual has parts broken down by catagory, name, part number and price........valuable for the owner or restorer as the item name can be cross referenced by part number to Waco blueprints........includes footnotes from Waco regarding equipment on certain serial number airplanes and vendor part numbers.......measures 11 by 8.5" in excellent condition........guaranteed genuine.....$85

2-31-B-O-1.........BASIC WEATHER FOR PILOT TRAINEES.......April 22, 1942.....5.5" by 8.5" with 204 pages and 2 fold up weather "decode" charts......first page of book is cartoon character "Aviation Cadet Knucklehead" who looks like "Dilbert's" brother, he appears throughout the book "committing more errors then a bush league 3rd baseman"...hey isn't that the position I played?......manual is well laid out with numerous topics still valuable today such as "world weather, frontal weather, fog, thunderstorms, hazards, etc. good reading.....$19

3-1-B-O-1......US GOV'T MANUAL ,SPRING 1942 SOLD

4-2-B-O-1....USAF AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION .....For the ground observer, as intended by the Air Force for the volunteer civilian ground observers in both US and Canada.....dated April 1955.........softcover in very good condition measures 6.5" by just under 10" with 172 pages .......seems like the USAF did a better job with this manual than some, it wisely includes aircraft markings, civilian aircraft, and even night time engine exhaust patterns on some planes (the B-36 Bomber must have looked pretty awesome at night with all that exhuast!) .....well done book and fun reading with much useful information regarding civilain ground observer corps and what they did..........$16

5-2-B-O-1.......AIR CORPS FIELD MANUAL AIR NAVIGATION......... Dated August 30, 1940, manual covers Air naviagtion, broken down into three main categories: Celestial nav,radio nav, pilotage and dead reckoning.......(sadly enough the typical professional pilot of current times is only proficient at one out of the three listed) ....43 page softcover manual 4.5' by 7" in excellent condition ...if you look close you will see inked stamp on front cover of this War Dept. manual, that was the original owner, and his stamp mentions his name, and his title: FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER, BOEING AIRCRAFT COMPANY .....wonder what he was working on in 1940.......$25

6-11-B-0-1..."U.S.ARMY AIRCRAFT, 1908-1946...This softcover 64 page illustrated book was published only in 1946...it lists EVERY aircraft the Air Corps operated from the beginning in 1908 to the end of WW II...with b&w photos of many .....over 450 photos....listing of the AAF codes for types and makes of all their aircraft with date of contract for acquisition, numbers procured and even mfg. plant locations...contains model variations...complete list of engines used...all the weird and rare experimental types.... ..gliders ...drones ...impressed civil aircraft...all in this 9x6 inch book...more data in one place then I've ever seen before or since .......list aircraft by category such as FIGHTER, then goes on to list EVERY model variation.......Jim Fahey put this together in 1946, (then re-released only in '64)...we bought the last ones found at his estate sale after Jims death several years ago...the original '08-'46 re-released in 1964..all the Armys aircraft book.new old stock...excellent condition.....only........$13

***I keep one in my desk and use it frequently!***

7-2-B-O-1....... 1000 DESTROYED............The Life and Times of the 4th. Fighter Group........Written by Grover C. Hall Jr. who was a Public Relations Officer in the 8th. Air Force during WWII..........'ol Grover wrote this book so well, you'd think he almost wanted to leave his desk job to go fight the Hun during the 'big one'.......great reading for any WWII enthusiast.....copyright 1946, second printing 1961 ......hardbound with dustjacket....Morgan Books of TX.. very good condition book, somewhat worn dustjacket....286 pages ...$16

8-1-B-O-1 ....DARE-DEVIL ACES NOVEMBER 1933 .........Pulp fiction magazine 'chock-full' of daring heroes and sneaky villians......looks like 9 stories included (non-fiction on Ernst Udet), all claimed new and complete by various authors........my favorite is The Hot Air Club, where people write in and tell each other and the editor 'to go to hell'.........why don't they still do that??..... measures about 7" by 10" with 125 pages, loose covers and wear to page edges....about good cond....fun reading for those boring days at work......$10

9-20-B-O-1.....AMELIA EARHART BIOGRAPHY ...... THE SOUND OF WINGS, The Life of Amelia Earhart by Mary S. Lovell........many other books regarding Earhart seem to concentrate on the last years before her disappearance, and ponder on her wherabouts......... this book details Amelia's entire fascinating life, beginning with her birth in 1897.........a modern book (1987) but one of the best biographies on Amelia ...hardbound, 420 pages, with dustjacket in very good condition............$6

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