Table of Contents
I Description
1. Airplane
2. Power Plant
3. Propeller
4. Operational Equipment
II Pilot Operating Instructions
1. On Entering the Pilot's Compartment
2. Starting Engine
3. Engine Warm-up
4. Engine and Accessories Ground Test
5. Taxying Instructions
6. Take-off
7. Engine Failure During Take-off
8. Climb
9. Flight Operation
10. General Flying Characteristics
11. Engine Failure During Flight
12. Stalls
13. Spins
14. Acrobatics
15. Diving operating data
16. Emergency Exit
17. Approach, Landing, and Cross-Wind Landing
18. Stopping Engine
19. Before Leaving Pilot's Compartment
20. Air-Speed Correction Table
21. Maneuvers Prohibited
III Flight Operating Data
1. Determining Gross Weight
2. Flight Planning
3. Take-off Climb and Landing Chart
4. Flight Operation Instruction Charts
IV Oxygen Equipment
1. Constant Flow Type
2. Demand Type System
V Operation of the Communication Equipment
1. Radio Operation
VI Armament
1. Wing Guns
2. To Fire the Guns
3. Bombs
4. Gun Sight
5. Gun Camera
Appendix I
Pilots' Crusing Instructions With One 170-Gallon Auxiliary Fuel Tank for P40K Airplanes
Take-off
Climb
Crusing Control
Crusing
Emergency Only
General
U.S.A. - British Glosary of Nomenclature
Table
Crusing Control
True Air Speeds
Fuel and Range Check for 170-Gallon Belly Tank
Airspeed and RPM
Charts
P40M
Weight and Balance
Engine Operations
Take-off, Climb and Landing
No External load
Combat load
FlightOperations
No external load
75 Gallon tank or 500lb bomb
Empty belly tank
Figures
1 - Three Quarter Left Rear View
2 - Armour protection
3 - Cockpit Opened and Closed
4 - Detailed operation of Cabin Controls
5 - Instrument Panel - Lower
6 - Instrument Panel - Upper
7 - Cockpit - Left Side Rear
8 - Cockpit - Left Side Front
9 - Cockpit - Right Side Rear
10 - Cockpit - Right Side - Front
11 - Fuselage - Contents
12 - Coolant System Diagram
13 - Oil System Diagram
14 - Hydraulic System Diagram
15 - Fuel System Diagram