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P80 Jet Pilots Training Manual 1945
Pilot’s Flight Operating Instructions For Army Model P- 80 A-1 Airplane – April 1945
The P-80, later known as the Shooting Star and the F-80 and closely related to the later T-33 trainer was a landmark aircraft being the first US Jet Fighter used operationally. This is an excellent Scanned copy. 60 Pages, including a September 1945 update supplement. Digitally cleaned page by page. Guaranteed the best quality copy of this manual you will find. Packed with invaluable data including many Photographs Diagrams & Drawings. Published in April 1945 under the joint authority of the Commanding General, Army Air Forces, the Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics and the Air Council of the United Kingdom. This manual is for the earliest production model the A-1. The pages can be printed out in high resolution.
Table of Contents
SECTION I – DESCRIPTION
General
Flight Controls
Landing Gear Controls
Brake Controls
Hydraulic Systems Controls
Aileron Booster Controls
Dive Flap Controls
Electrical Controls
Fuel System Controls
Throttle Controls
SECTION II – PILOT OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
Before entering Pilot’s Compartment
On Entering Pilot’s Compartment
Fuel System Management
Starting the Engine
Warm-up and Ground Test
Taxiing Instructions
Take-off
Engine Failure During Take-ff
Climb
General Flying Characteristics
War Emergency Operation
Stalls
Spins
Permissible Acrobatics
Diving
Night Flying
Approach and Landing
Stopping the Engine
Before Leaving the Pilot’s Compartment
SECTION III – FLIGHT OPERATING DATA
Engine Operating Data
Air Speed Correction Table
SECTION IV – EMERGENCY OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
Emergency Exit
Fire
Engine Failure During Flight
Bomb or Droppable Tank Emergency Procedures
Wing Flap Emergency Operation
Landing Gear Emergency Operation
Landing With Wheels Retracted
Landing in Water (Ditching)
SECTION V – OPERATIONAL EQUIPMENT
Heating, Ventilating and Pressurizing
Oxygen System
Armament
Communications Equipment
APPENDIX I
Cruising Information
SUPPLEMENT – 13 September 1945
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