So far there have been Aircraft Documents, Aircraft Drawings, Spacecraft Documents, Spacecraft Drawings, Aerospace Projects Review and Justo Miranda’s “Reichdreams” series. I will soon be doing much the same with a few military manuals and general non-aerospace historical documents that might be of interest. I have a half dozen or so small-format “comic book” style instructional manuals on things such as anti-tank warfare and using your Vulcan anti-aircraft cannon that I will be making available. Since these are pretty small items, the prices will be appropriately small… maybe two bucks.
<> If you have anything along these lines just taking up space that you’d be interested in loaning, renting or selling to me (or if you know of a source for such), let me know what you have.
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You don’t happen to have the F-86D book, do you? That was hilarious.
> F-86D book
Nope. Got a copy? Know of one?
The Germans did a comic-book style antitank warfare manual in WW II called “Panzerknacker”: http://www.usmbooks.com/panzerknacker.html
They seem to have gotten the ball rolling on the comic book manual concept using pretty girls: http://www.usmbooks.com/tigerfibel.html
The YB-49 Flying Wing pilot’s manual uses some cartoon drawings also.
The famous one is the comic book used to instruct troops in the use and cleaning of the M-16 rifle during the Vietnam War: http://www.ep.tc/problems/25/
They could have gotten a better artist for the girl; she looks like Nancy Sinatra with a extra Y chromosome.
Don’t have it. I’ve seen a few pages in a 1971 AIR PROGRESS. What I saw was too small to reproduce.
I remember the comic book manuals, for vehicle maintenance, weapons maintenance, hygiene, setting up tents, blahblahblah. They were f-ing hi-larious.
And in a lot of regular FMs there was quite the load of comical illustrations showing various things. I watched a Lt directing several troops in building a 2 man fighting position, and he insisted it be done EXACTLY like the illustration, although directly above that illustration was the sentence, in bold print, that the position must be adapted to the local terrain and tactical situation. They spent 2 very long days on it, and when the Sergeant Major came by to inspect it he told them it sure was purdy, and completely useless, it was on the forward face of a slope, outside the defined perimeter, and within the blast fan of the claymores from the positions on right and left of it. But it sure was purdy.
I once got ahold of one about measuring standards (I work for the Army Corps of Engineers, which should explain why THAT particular subject). It started by saying that standards of measurement were developed by the Egyptians to build their pyramids, complete with cartoons of said Egyptians and pyramids, and went on from there. Cartoons of female Army personnel in very short skirts were also present throughout.
Yea, I also remember booklets about winter weather hazards, titled Beating The Hawk. Was filled with females in furcoats and micro-mini skirts. And one on M54A1 truck maintenance with a female in skin tight mechanics coveralls. Considering the condition of most trucks in service at the time I don’t think it was really helping.