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Gives a little bit of the layout for the Raiden.

There is a way via the printer, once it's set up in the cache adobe can convert to PDF. Not exactly sure what the sequence is any more, been too long. Didn't have a printer back than either. Worth a try if you have Adobe available.

This is a section taken out of NAVAER 00-80S-40 dated 1944, as pertains to the PB4Y-1, Navalized Liberator.

01-25CF-1 is the Pilots Operating Instruction for the P-40E-1 series.

I'd go more with a possible lion, note the long tail, badgers have little clipped tails.

As was eluded to by previous posters, they committed themselves to an air cooled solution in aviation. But no one mentioned the Italians were world leaders in liquid cooled aviation engine technology in the early to mid thirties. It was a major blunder to drop development, assuming air cooled...

Wind tunnel testing for pitch stability P-39N-1

Two docs related to P-38 high speed diving characteristics.

NACA 1942 report on Spit Va stalling characteristics.

Phnix Island 1943 Remember reading a pilots biography who was stationed a short while in the Phoenix islands in P-39's out of Panama, he mentions the special paint jobs. Can't remember what book or pilot it was though........

The same mount used for the siren also doubled as the combat camera mounting, a few different camera configurations were used. You can see it in some of the historical film sequences on the dives, by the positioning, there's also a few photo's in existence with the camera mounted.

The bear better beware, they have enough trouble on the home front. Last thing Russia needs is more hardened enemies on the doorstep. Lets see where these little nations are in comparison to the Russian ethnic core in two score years from now. Current UN projections have the Russian...

Here's another manual, didn't see anything on this one in a thread search. Oops, didn't attach for some reason, here's a backup link. Megaupload

There's been a bit of argument over the red star with white disk markings over the years, but the book "The Alaska-Siberian Connection" documents how the Texico corporation stickers were used to finish marking aircraft in the agreed manner. Seems the Air Corp stateside refused to paint Soviet...

The setting is USA, place is Orlando Florida, the units mission is advanced fighter combat using P-40's flown by combat veterans who experienced enemy contact first hand to mimic all known enemy tactics from all theaters. This was the original top gun, and one of it's more famous mounts. The...