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Download or read book Pilot s Handbook of Flight Operating Instructions for Model P 47b Airplane written by Ray Merriam and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press Military Reprint 11. First Edition (August 2012). This is the pilot's handbook of flight operating instructions for the Republic P-47B Thunderbolt fighter powered with the R-2800-1 engine, issued by the Air Service Command, Air Force Section, Patterson Field, Fairfield, Ohio, in September 1942. Contents: Description; Pilot Operating Instructions; Flight Operation Data; Communications Equipment; Armament; Operation of Oxygen Equipment; Appendix: USA-British Glossary of Nomenclature; 44 photos and illustrations; 5 charts.

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