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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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