Australian Beaufort Manuals

[ProudKerman]

I'm just thankful they're here in the first place

 

[AusBeaufortGroup]

Okay MiTasol
I am not ashamed should I be?
I am just a guy who collects aircraft parts for the time being. One day I hope to own a restoration facility and museum but for now I'm doing what I can. I dont have a Beaufort or anything its just a goal.
Actually its that group that has inspired me to acquire and restore a Beaufort, long shot I know but I thought the first step would be acquire as many manuals as possible and get as much info on the aircraft which will no doubt include a few trips to Caboolture.
And also I apologize for offending you with the Descriptive Manual business, I owe you a great debt just for sharing. I'm not sure if anyone else had this trouble but it was out of order for me, starts on Chapter 4 or something instead of a title page or contents and seams to jump around randomly after that. :/
Maybe if you could send me a copy it might work and that'd be amazingly helpful.
Not sure what you mean by sandpit Caboolture maybe, not sure but I don't have the original a hard to find piece if their ever was one.
If I was from their group I would proudly tell everyone lol. Good to see the manuals in the right hands though they need it more than us.
Feel free to PM me if you have any questions.

 

[MiTasol]

My apologies AusBeufortGroup
From the GROUP in your tag I took you to be a GROUP and therefore probably the Melbourne group that own the oldest remaining Beaufort, T9552/A9-13. They are commonly called the sandpit because their site is a sandy corner of an airport,
They have the original of the manual I posted.
They also have the worlds only Kittystang (P-40 fuselage on P-51 wings)
If you print the Beaufort manual (all the files) you will find it makes more sense than just looking at one file on the computer

 

[Markeight]

Here is part three and the index and size data for the fold outs to come

Hi all, new here. Thanks for posting this manual - fantastic! Just wondering if there was anywhere that had the foldouts from this manual, seems a couple of them are illustrations of sections of the plane I need for trying to identify components in wrecks.

Thanks again for posting this information, a great resource

 

[doleip]

Managed to reverse the order of pages.
Hope this helps make them easier to read..

 

[MiTasol]

Hi all, new here. Thanks for posting this manual - fantastic! Just wondering if there was anywhere that had the foldouts from this manual, seems a couple of them are illustrations of sections of the plane I need for trying to identify components in wrecks.

Thanks again for posting this information, a great resource

Hi Maticash

I have to admit to forgetting all about these posts (and suffering severe embarrassment).
I will have to re-find the scans and hope like hell I have them on a backup disk.
To make life easier, if I find them, I will repost the whole manual section by section

 

[Markeight]

Hi Maticash

I have to admit to forgetting all about these posts (and suffering severe embarrassment).
I will have to re-find the scans and hope like hell I have them on a backup disk.
To make life easier, if I find them, I will repost the whole manual section by section

Awesome - thanks! Thanks so much, even if you don't find them what you have posted so far is fantastic

 

[MiTasol]

Hi Maticash
I have found the original crappy scans but not the reworked ones.
Will keep you posted

 

[Markeight]

Hi Maticash
I have found the original crappy scans but not the reworked ones.
Will keep you posted

Fantastic, anything you can provide is greatly appreciated!

 

[MiTasol]

I will try again to do the foldouts soon and will hopefully post another version of the same Beaufort Descriptive manual about the same time (I am scanning it at present and where the foldouts are identical this will help as many of the foldouts from the first are less than clean thanks to Officeworks who scanned them

 

[MiTasol]

Well I got my finger out at last and have assembled all the split scans so that I can actually assemble the whole manual. I am missing Section 4A Chapter 4 Figure 2 so if anyone out there has a copy with that page please PM me.

I have again broken the manual into 3 parts (Sections 0 to 4, 4A and 5 to 9) and am posting Section 4A first as it has the most diagrams. At 232 pages it covers roughly 50% of the total pages.

I have included all the diagrams original size but put in the blank reverse of the page using the standard 215 x 330mm of the text pages. I expect most people who print any part of it will select fit to page but for those who want detail the option to print the page bigger is retained.

As always the pages are watermarked to prevent unscrupulous scum selling copies.

EDIT Sections 1 to 4 added - 140 pages

 

[MiTasol]

I have been using Adobes Clearscan OCR (which is supposed to thicken the letters before scanning them and produce a better OCR result) for the first time on this manual and have just realised that it also thickens every dust spec on the page. I will redo sections 5-9 without Clearscan as I have only just started those parts.

If anyone has problems with sections 1 through 4A let me know and I will recreate the file using regular OCR

 

[MiTasol]

Section 5 to 9 added - 192 pages. OCRd with regular OCR. Section 7 Chapter 2 Figure 3 is missing according to the List of Illustrations but I think it was never issued. It is the wing tip which is shown on figure 2. There are other places where the List of Illustrations and the actual Figure titles are different so I know from that the proof reading was pretty ordinary.

 

[MiTasol]

Just had a good win.

There was an Aus Beaufort manual advertised on a fleabay wannabee site so I waited until the last minute and put in the minimum bid.

It just arrived and surprise surprise it has been amended 4 times and includes some of the amendment paperwork.

I will scan and post asap

 

[ThomasP]

Yes please!

 

[MiTasol]

 

[MiTasol]

At last a complete Beaufort manual, FIRST edition, in one file.

I am really pleased to get this one finished - It has driven me crazy for years as I always have problems with it. Its not perfect but it is complete and OCRd. I have not included any of the blank pages because it was so much hassle.

OCRd naturally.

I guess my next try will be to finish that #$%^& second edition.

Darn - it will not upload - nbn is too slow is my guess - will try again tomorrow

 

[MiTasol]

Because this manual has given me so much heartache I have decided to do two versions - one for purists and one for practical use. Hopefully no one will ask for the purist version.

Firstly I created the main part of the manual (all those standard size pages of 212 x 330mm) and then I will create the fold outs as a second document.

Within this main section there were 147 blank pages in the 476 "small" pages. In the practical version I have stripped out all blank pages except where required to start each new section on a right hand page. I will not be reformatting the margins but centring every page vertically so that will take mere minutes as most of it is automated once I get that far and it is the size of the manual that slows the software down to a snails pace - I have 32gb RAM so processing power is not the issue.

There is plenty of space to centre the text vertically as the margins are massive. My GUESS is that the people writing the text expected the manual to be the standard 8 x 10 page used by CAC and most other manufacturers and the people creating the drawings expected the book to use the 8 3/8 x 13 pages used by the RAAF in many its manuals so the text got dumped onto the larger pages.

Obviously there was no project manager on this project

Cutting out the majority of the blank pages cuts the main section to just 340 pages. The reason for all the blank pages is every drawing was on a front page and if it had a key that was on the preceding front page. !@#$%^&* morons did not seem to care that there was a war on and paper was a rationed item in short supply.

As for the fold outs there are 53 of then and almost every one is a different size - see below. Not having to do the reverse side of those will save me hours.

There is no standard size for foldout pages – each is individual as partially shown below. Of the 53 fold outs there are 50 different page sizes.

As I said before - Obviously there was no project manager on this project.

 

[MiTasol]

And SOME of the foldouts - for those diagrams that have codes, the codes are in the previous post.

Why cant I have a win for a change with this %^&* document? Only 51 of 53 printed. I will identify and post the last two later as reduced size pages.

This file is NOT ICR'd as it is mainly hand written text.

 

[MiTasol]

Missing pages in 300 dpi