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Re: NO LBC - Old Airplane Ride Descision

To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: NO LBC - Old Airplane Ride Descision
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 21:57:34 -0400
>> WWII aircraft silhouette flash cards...

  I have a set from 1979. :-)

  In high school I worked part-time in a local town library (early '70's :-) ). 
 The head librarian gave me a 1943 "Restricted" aircraft recognition training 
manual with silhouettes and pics.  It's paperback and instead of being glued 
together is 'bound' by having the pages threaded onto a thin, flat 
red/white/blue ribbon.
  At a gun show recently I picked up a small kid's/young-adult's book, 
Copyright 1941, showing the US fighting planes.  
  Interestingly, it lists the F4 Corsair as experimental but doesn't list the 
P-51 at all.  (If I recall the P-51 was a rush job that went from drawing board 
to flight test in about 6 months.  Most planes we used in the war were either 
already  flying or in prototype status when we got involved.)
  Ed in NC  (P-40, P-51 and B-17 were my favorites. :-) )





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