3-1-B-O-6...........PILOTS NOTES DEHAVILLAND MOSQUITO MARKS FII AND NFXII.........Original 1944 abbreviated flight manual for the "Mossie"..... the Brit's realized that pilots could not carry a full size flight manual on a flight mission, so they came up with a condensed manual that includes just the 'important stuff such as essential controls, guns, cockpit equipment, handling, flight limitations, checklist, and emergencies.....most competent pilots could use this maual as a sole reference for flight, although the Air Ministry recommended pilots have a copy of the full size manual for any in depth questions..... excellent photos of all cockpit controls with numbered identification of everything.....power setting charts, schematic of emergency equipment, emergency checklists (Vmc was 170 mph!!)...the MK FII and NFXII were the night fighter versions with pilot and RO sitting side by side with extended engine nacelles, AI MK IV or V radar or "Turbinlight" searchlight....armament was four 20mm cannons plus four .303 Brownings....who knows, this manual may have been in a RAF pilot's flight bag when he shot down a ME-110!......manual 5" by 7.5", about 40 pages, with hand written notes, and slight water (or sweat) stain at edge...........quite rare and original piece of history.........$95

4-1-B-O-6.....NATIONAL AERONAUTIC ASSOCIATION PROCEEDINGS 1947.......Fifth National Aviation Clinic by the NAA.......this famous association's origins date back to 1905 with some of the first members including Wilbur and Orville Wright, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh.......this book records the "clinic" in Springfield IL of Nov. 1947.....speakers at the meet read like a "who's who" of aviation: Roscoe Turner, Bill Piper, Robert Wood (then editor of Aviation Week), etc.....many topics addressed regarding the current problems in aivation and regulation.....excellent condition, 272 pages, 6 by 9"......only....$7

5-2-B-O-6......WAR DEPT. TECH MANUAL - AIRCRAFT SHEET METAL WORK.......Dated Feb. 10, 1941, this manual is 147 pages, and contains information on repair of aircraft aluminum structures (probably one of the more frequently used manuals of this series during WWII, this is what mechanics would have referenced after a plane had bullet hole damage, flak holes, etc).....manual is in new old stock condition, and has two holes punched in spine for inseting into binder.....like new original WWII aircraft mechanic manual.....measures 5.5" by 8.5"........$29

6-1-B-O-6......US NAVY AVIATION ENGINE LOGBOOK R2800-31 LOCKHEED PV-2 .......Original large engine logbook for an R2800 Double Wasp 18 cylinder radial engine that was installed on the starboard side of a Lockheed PV-2 in 1945...........log ends Sept '50.......looks like it was in NAS Alameda for a while...this was a Ford engine! come with Ford Motor Company Aircraft Engine Crankshaft magnaflux report, and Bureau of Aeronautics letter dated 1943.....hard cover logbook measures 8" by 10" in good original condition ....complete and hard to find......$26

8-1-B-O-6.....BLAZE OF NOON......GANN............ One of many "best books" by the legendary Ernest K. Gann.......if you have never read one of his novels, you need to! Gann writes in a style that can only originate from a high time commercial pilot that had "been there-done that".......this book about the Flying Macdonalds, four brothers and barnstormers of the 1920's......origninal printing 1946... with 310 pages... 5 by 8.5".. have a few copies...all in good to very good condition......$9

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