Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians

Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians

by Larry Reithmaier (Author)

Synopsis

This is the benchmark portable manual since 1952. It is revised and updated for the 21st Century. The definitive nuts-and-bolts manual for all-metal aircraft, from Cessna 150s to Boeing 747s, this newly revised and updated classic gives mechanics and technicians clear, step-by-step, fully illustrated procedures for all standard aircraft tasks.The Sixth Edition of this bestseller features coordinated step-by-step procedures, methods, and techniques - including those used by Lockheed and Rockwell Boeing. It details basic shop practices such as drilling and riveting. It shows you how to install electrical wiring and plumbing. It gives clear directions for nondestructive testing, corrosion prevention and control, and other vital tasks. It fully demonstrates forming and fabricating, and covers materials and materials handling, and more! The Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians is the one all-metal-aircraft source that you'll turn to again and again, for projects large and small.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 292
Edition: 6
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Published: 01 Jun 1999

ISBN 10: 0071348360
ISBN 13: 9780071348362

Author Bio
Larry Reithmaier is a retired mechanical engineer who, while at Rockwell International, helped design and develop the F2H, F3, F86H, F100, F101, and F4 jet fighters, the B-1B bomber, and Apollo and Skylab spacecrafts. The author of several technical books on aviation, he also wrote the Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians, Sixth Edition; the Aviation and Space Dictionary; Mach I and Beyond; Private Pilot's Guide; and Aircraft Repair Manual.