The installation of new book shelves allowed one of my collection of old APs to surface and have some attention paid to it.
“AP1477 Notes on Metal Rigging 1936 reprint”, would be usable today as the basis for a training course for anyone setting out to build aircraft of that vintage (doesn’t apply to anyone on this forum 😉 of course).
What interested me was the drawings used for the training exercises, whilst some are just test pieces some are recognisable parts as can be seen with these two drawings.
Considering how many Tom**** were built I wonder just how many of these fins and rudders were made by trainees, and what became of them[ATTACH]179508[/ATTACH]
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presumably they went to the S of TT (Women) for fabric covering :rolleyes:
By: John Aeroclub - 8th December 2009 at 09:40
Thank you I appreciate seeing any original engineering drawings from AP’s.
Regards
John
By: mike currill - 8th December 2009 at 07:32
I bet that was a fun job. All those curves and angles. Still if you could make one of those you could make just about anything I reckon.
By: Arabella-Cox - 7th December 2009 at 22:38
OK just for you John here are the last in the AP, obviously the final exercise. Sorry for the two halfs but the hull drawing is too big for my scanner.
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By: John Aeroclub - 7th December 2009 at 09:23
I would certainly like to see any other similar drawings please.
John
By: mike currill - 7th December 2009 at 07:31
and probably found their way onto production aircraft.
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