A copy of the Convair C-131A Samaritan Flight Manual. Dated 25 September 1962. Credit: Anymouse Collection
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Postimg.org had a registry problem about a year ago and they had to move to Postimg.cc.
All photos are still available; but, the "CC" must be subtituted for "ORG" in the corresponding URL address to get to the proper place. (Hold cursor over link to get URL address or change in address line.) Postimg.org becomes Postimg.cc.
Also... any URLs with the prefix "old." need to have that removed completely as well. IE, old.postimg.org/ should be amended to postimg.cc
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My name is Ron Downey. I am a retired Aeronautical Engineer who worked for McDonnell Aircraft and McDonnell Douglas Corp for 40 years and collected many photos, info and brochures of their products. While the F-4 is my favorite, I have many other MDC items and these will be scanned and presented here. In addition, I have been an aviation historian for most of my adult life and I have amassed a large amount of info over my 50+ years of collecting and will be bringing that here also. My aim is to bring aviation material (Photos, articles; etc) to this blog before it is lost; but, not in-depth explanations as any good search engine can be used for that purpose. I may be contacted at: aviationarchives(at)gmail.com
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When I was much younger, in the mid-1970s, I was an engineer at the Naval Air Rework Facility in Norfolk VA. A VC-131 (fancy version, allegedly used by the Commander of the Panama Canal Zone) had been sitting out at Breezy Point for a number of years, and somebody contacted us to do an inspection so that it could be flown somewhere else. A coworker and I did the inspection - actually, being the senior guy, my coworker held the ladder for me to climb up into the belly hatch and inspect the structure under the floor. Things were OK until I got back to the vicinity of the toilet, where there had obviously been a LOT of leakage over the years. There was a serious amount of corrosion and, being very junior, I decided that I couldn't make a determination of the extent of that damage, much less its effect on structural integrity. So we went back to the office, discussed the situation, and I wrote a one-time flight authorization (minimum crew, daylight clear-weather only) for the airplane to go to some other place, whoever had "engineering cognizance" as we called it for the C-131. I think it was San Antonio but I wouldn't bet a nickel either way. Anyway, it flew out there, and very soon thereafter we got a message saying that after it had arrived, their experts had looked at it and ordered that it be scrapped on the spot! I've searched in vain for any records that document which aircraft this was; nothing in any database matches up with the timeline that I was a part of. But it happened!
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