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gallery subject is special to me and for once I have shown all the manual
pages, not just the ones that contain drawings or plans useful for
modelers. The reason for this is that it is a cracking example of the
genre; typed on old 'sit up' type writers and all the drawings are
hand-drawn, no computers here! It is also an interesting read and repays
careful study as to how the Empire was to be flown and, more to the point,
exactly what that entailed. You will note from the first page that it was
written on 3rd January 1937. 'Canopus', the first 'C' Class Empire first
flew on 4th July 1936, with 3 others ('Caledonia', 'Centaurus' and
'Cavalier') later the same year. 'Cambria' first flew on 21st January 1937
and so this manual could well have been read just prior to that. Now,
there's a thought.
I have made these pages
available as a pdf also (see the Empire Reference Archive elsewhere) but
please note that it takes a while to download, so you might want to do the
same yourself with these images in your own time. If you have access to
any other Empire Manuals please consider scanning the pages and sending it
to SEAWINGS for inclusion here as the detailed drawings contained in the
pages are priceless.
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