strombeck becker manufacturing (1 Ergebnisse)

Wraps. Zustand: Good. Sheet has been folded. Gruettner, J. Eaton (illustrator). 1 sheet p. Includes illustrations. Approximately 135 inches by 10.25 inches, text and drawings on both sides. Includes front, side and under views as well as views of various parts and sections. This is an extremely scarce item of ephemera. It is the assembly instruction from the assembly kit of a Korean War era Navy Fighter jet that had just entered into combat operations. It includes photographs courtesy of North American Aviation, Inc. Information from an on-line posting: "Strombecker Corporation A.K. A Strombeck-Becker Manufacturing Company and StromBecKer headquartered in Moline, Illinois from1911 2004. Strombeck-Becker Manufacturing Company, a family owned company, started making toys in 1919. Their toy division was not very successful until they introduced train sets and wood kits in the 1930 s. In 1961, with the death and retirement of some of the company s founders, the name was changed to Strombecker Manufacturing Company. Unfortunately, the next year found the company completely broke and most of the company was sold to Dowst Manufacturing Company. The Strombecker family continued to operate their wood kit line, selling that line in 1980 to Chicago Cutlery Company. In 2004, the Strombecker name was merged with another division of Dowst Manufacturing Company called Tootsietoys ending decades of toy making under the Strombecker name." From Wikipedia: "The North American FJ-2/-3 Fury were a series of swept-wing carrier-capable fighters for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. Based on the United States Air Force's F-86 Sabre, these aircraft featured folding wings, and a longer nose landing strut designed to both increase angle of attack upon launch and to absorb the shock of hard landings on an aircraft carrier deck. Although sharing a U.S. Navy designation with its distant predecessor, the straight-winged North American FJ-1 Fury, the FJ-2/-3 were completely different aircraft.By 1951, the Navy's existing straight-wing fighters were much inferior in performance to the swept-wing Soviet MiG-15 then operating in the Korean War; the swept-wing fighters in the Navy's development pipeline, including the Vought F7U Cutlass and F9F Cougar were not yet ready for deployment. As an interim measure, the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics ordered a direct development of the swept-wing F-86E Sabres as the FJ-2. As the F-86 had not been designed to be carrier-capable, this involved some risk, but Navy pilots had observed that the F-86A actually had a lower landing speed than the F9F Panther. [citation needed] The urgency behind the program was such that 300 (later reduced to 200) FJ-2 fighters were ordered before the prototypes had flown. The first prototype to fly was actually the third aircraft ordered: Designated XFJ-2B and first flown on 27 December 1951, it differed only from a standard F-86E-10 in its armament, having four 20-mm Colt Mk 12 cannon instead of the six Colt-Browning M3.50 machine guns of the Sabre. The second and third aircraft to fly were designated XFJ-2 and lacked armament, but were modified to be carrier-capable: They had an arrester hook and a longer nosewheel leg to increase angle of attack at take-off and landing, and catapult fittings. In August 1952 carrier trials were flown on USS Midway (CVB-41), followed by carrier qualification trials on USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) in October December 1952. Results were less than satisfactory. Low-speed handling was considered poor, and the arrester hook and nose gear leg were insufficiently strong. The first production aircraft flew on 22 November 1952. This FJ-2 incorporated further modifications for carrier operations: The track of the main landing gear was widened by eight inches, the outer wing panels folded upward, and the windscreen was modified to give the pilot a better view during approach. The FJ-2 also featured an all-moving "flying tail" without dihedral. Because of problems experienced during launches with steam catapults, a number of FJ-2 later received a stronger nosewheel strut. Outwardly, the FJ-2 was hard to distinguish from an F-86, apart from Navy paint and the gun muzzles of the 20-mm cannon. The engine was the General Electric J47-GE-2, Presumed first ed. /first printing of this assembly instruction.