[R-390] 1954 Air Force R-390 "Charts and Diagrams"

Mike A mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Wed Dec 5 10:46:12 EST 2012


On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 06:36:22PM -0500, frank hughes wrote:
> Hi,
> I came into possession of an interesting R-390 manual that I have not seen
> before.
> 
> It is a 7 June 1954 Air Force "Charts and Diagrams", version C-5-15-(d) Rev
> 20 Sept 1956.
> 
> The manual has notes and circuit coloring that look like what we would do
> in class while trying to reinforce
> the lessons and technical information, so that we could master the
> technology.
> 
> It is very legible, but the paper is old and darkening, brittle. (I know
> that guy...)
> 
> My wife works at an engineering place that has fancy scanners.
> The smaller pages were able to fit on a color scanner, came out great (but
> they are large files)
> 
> The 40" fold-out pages were done on a black & white only scanner, so the
> wonderful work that Airman Sullivan did
> coloring the circuit components and paths is not evident.
> 
> I have put the cover of the manual here:
> 
> http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x257/fish1_07/R-390/cover.png
> 
> If you click on "options" there is a "download" selection.
> 
> If there is any interest expressed, I will see if it is possible to put all
> the manual pages on the same site.
> (Smallest file is 7.4Mb, largest is 71.8 Mb)

I have lotsandlots of room, and considerable interest in hosting these
images. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin 


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