Description

This auction is for a high-quality modern reprint of the vintage WWII flight manual entitled "Maintenance Manual P-51D Fighter Airplanes". Buyer to pay actual shipping costs. In the US, they will go by Media Mail for maybe $5. For foreign, it will be at least $35 for USPS International Priority Mail. It is too big for the flat-rate envelope or for First Class mail. Please check the postage calculator to be sure. These are not your grandmother's scans. Every page has been hand-corrected to remove as many blemishes as possible. Color correction with a known color standard sheet was used to get the colors as close to the original as possible. Special care was taken with the half-tone images to make sure all the depth and range of the originals is preserved. Manuals are printed on 24 lb paper and comb-bound with clear plastic front cover and black plastic back sheet. "Maintenance Manual P-51D Fighter Airplanes" North American Aviation Report No. NA-5865 , March 22, 1944, 440 pages. This is the manual from the manufacturer, analogous to Boeing's "Familiarization and Maintenance" manuals. The military manuals, such as the Erection and Maintenance manuals are taken from this. In some ways, this is a superior manual when compared to the military ones - it is all color glossy paper. It has a lot of helpful tips, as well as the dry technical descriptions. Sections include Description, Shipment & Erection, Handling & Maintenance, Fixed Surfaces, Movable Surfaces, Surface Controls, Fuselage, Landing Gear, Wheels & Brakes, Hydraulics, Engine & Propeller, Fuel System, Oil System, Cooling System, Instruments, Electrical, Radio, Armament, Oxygen, Weight Data, Material Specification. There are very detailed descriptions and images of each and every part of the aircraft. PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT A PHYSICAL DUPLICATE OF THE ORIGINAL. It is comb-bound with acetate front and back covers. The original was a soft-cover booklet, using professional binding. The contents, detail, and color of each page have been faithfully reproduced, but it is not bound the way the original was.