Consolidated Field Service Bulletins Vol 1 1942-43

[fubar57]

I think you'll like these MiTasol There is also a handy index at the end. I'll split and post the other two volumes later today

 

[fubar57]

A couple of examples, with serial number and BuNos highlighted to show which aircraft the mods started on

 

[Wurger]

 

[MiTasol]

Thanks

That is the sort of info that is getting rarer to find by the day.

I think Geoffrey Sinclair will also like it

 

[Geoffrey Sinclair]

Agreed it is a nice find. Not quite sure what is going on with the copying.

Starting at part 1 of the PDF it is missing numbers 4, 13, 15 and 16. Then on PDF part 2 page 92 it starts again with number 1, which means number 4 starts on PDF part 3 page 2, number 13 on page 86 etc. All up it means the 4 PDF are a complete set of volume 1, but not quite 2 sets.

 

[fubar57]

Here is where I got these documents so that you can download them in their entirety without me missing pages. This link is for Vol.3, scroll down for 1 & 2
Consolidated Field Service Bulletins Vol. 3 1945 : SDASM : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
MiTasol G Geoffrey Sinclair
I have also found these for the B-17F and G if you want them posted in a separate thread

 

[MiTasol]

Thank you

 

[Geoffrey Sinclair]

First pass, any volunteers to do checking, or adding to entries?

 

[watson1963]

These are fantastic . Any chance you could post the B-17 ones fubar? I'd be interested to see how the Boeing ones differ from Consolidated. They must've had a large office of drawing staff to produce tech training and info backup like this. Speaking as a Brit, the illustrative style is very attractive, compared to the UK manuals, which tended to be more spartan and based on derivations of line drawings. The Field Service Bulletins also underline, for me, the scale of the arsenal of democracy. Superb

 

[fubar57]

W watson1963 The files are very large so here are the links. They last one you need to register which I did during COVID. I don't know how complete they are

Boeing model B-17F bombardment airplane field service manual. · The Museum of Flight - Digital Collections

Welcome to the digital collections of The Museum of Flight. This site features digitized materials from our archival, library, and artifact collections. Search and browse historic photographs, letters, journals, flight logs, military records, oral histories, and other media.

digitalcollections.museumofflight.org

Avialogs: Aviation Library - Boeing B-17G Field Service Manual

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www.avialogs.com

Thank you Geoffrey

 

[watson1963]

Thanks Geoffrey, I'd completely forgotten about this one! It's good that Benoit made all these free for us to use. I did a trawl and saved all the stuff of interest to me when he made it free. Thanks for the link!