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General Notes:

Who Did All This? The majority (95%), were scanned in by me on trips to the Naval Historical Center in the Washington DC Navy Yard, and at the Historical Section of the US Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

Those that were not scanned by me, but given to me as gifts have that person's name in Parenthesis; such as (Tommy) for Tommy Thomason, and (Yip) for W. Yip).

Discolored Streaks on some Scans: This unfortunately, was caused by me not properly cleaning my new scanner; and me contaminating the calibration plate with Windex. After getting my scanner replaced under warranty, the problem went away.

Obtaining a Physical (DVD) Copy of the Archive: If you really do want them all in a easy package, contact me via private message on my forum, with your address, and I'll mail out the DVD.

I repeat, send me your address in your PM; or how else am I supposed to mail them out?!?

I shall repeat again:

I repeat, send me your address in your PM; or how else am I supposed to mail them out?!?

Rough Archive Size (As of 5 June 2009):

425 Standard Aircraft Characteristics (General file size of about 5-14~ MB)

354 Characteristics Sheets (General file size of about 2~ MB)

55 Airplane Characteristics and Performance Documents

32 Performance Data Documents

21 Standard Missile Characteristics

For about 3,100~ pages scanned in and available for your pleasure. (this is a low ball estimate based on my knowledge of average document sizes)

Special Note for 5 June 2009: At around 8:54 PM Eastern, I finally finished scanning in and preparing all the raw scans from my August 2008 trip to the US Air Force Museum. I'd have done it faster, but I kept getting distracted by other things...

Stuff Related to Military Aerospace

Air Force Systems Command: “Development of Airborne Armament: 1910-1961

Volume I: Bombing Systems (6~ MB Binary 2 color PDF)

P/A IV Activity Report; June-July 1947; Prepared by San Diego Division of Convair. (Sort of like a Proto Talos) (20 MB)

SAC Specification Documents

MIL-C-5011A “Military Specification – Charts; Standard Aircraft Characteristics and Performance, Piloted Aircraft” (5 November 1951)

Definitions:

PD = Performance Data (Early WWII Era)

ACP = Airplane Characteristics and Performance (WWII Era, lasted into about 1948)

SAC = Standard Aircraft Characteristics (Began being used around 1948, and as time went on, they became more and more detailed)

CS = Characteristics Summary









































AE-1 PD - 1 April 1943

BD-2 PD - 1 May 1943

Douglas Model 725 SAC - 15 August 1957

System 221A CS - 20 February 1956

F12F-1 CS - 15 August 1955 (Not by Me)

HE-1 PD - 1 April 1943

KDM-1 SAC - 1 August 1950

MX-774 - 1 April 1947

NE-1 Grasshopper PD - July 1942

NH-1 PD - 1 April 1943

NJ-1 PD - July 1942

UC-1 CS - 15 July 1956

UO-1 Aztec SAC - 15 August 1961

XBK-1 ACP - 8 May 1944