Canadian Car and Foundry Harvard Drawings?
Sun Dec 20, 2015 4:44 pm
I've wondering about this for years. Anyone know if CC&F drawings exist for the Harvard IV? NASM has the T-6 sets on micro, any equivalent for CC&F?
Thanks,
PC
Thanks,
PC
Re: Canadian Car and Foundry Harvard Drawings?
Sun Dec 27, 2015 8:58 am
I take it the answer is no. Bummer.
Re: Canadian Car and Foundry Harvard Drawings?
Mon Dec 28, 2015 1:03 pm
I have no idea about the answer to your question. Just another question - is there any reason to expect or assume that CCF would have had their own drawings for their version of the T-6 as opposed to working off of original North American drawings?
By the same token, would Eastern Aircraft/General Motors have had a different or unique set of drawings for building their own versions of the Grumman Wildcat and Avenger? I know that the FM-2 was different in respect to several significant details compared to any of the major production variants of the F4F series actually produced by Grumman (i.e. the Wright R-1820 instead of the Pratt R-1830, taller fin, etc. and that IIRC Grumman produced only 2 of their own prototypes of what became the FM-2 to be built by GM - possibly designated F4F-7?) but I believe that I have also read that the TBF-3 and TBM-3 were practically identical, differing only in terms of which company built them.
By the same token, would Eastern Aircraft/General Motors have had a different or unique set of drawings for building their own versions of the Grumman Wildcat and Avenger? I know that the FM-2 was different in respect to several significant details compared to any of the major production variants of the F4F series actually produced by Grumman (i.e. the Wright R-1820 instead of the Pratt R-1830, taller fin, etc. and that IIRC Grumman produced only 2 of their own prototypes of what became the FM-2 to be built by GM - possibly designated F4F-7?) but I believe that I have also read that the TBF-3 and TBM-3 were practically identical, differing only in terms of which company built them.
Re: Canadian Car and Foundry Harvard Drawings?
Mon Dec 28, 2015 1:54 pm
What drawings were you looking for specifically?
To answer your question, probably not, but 90% of the parts in a Harvard Mk 4 have NAA prefixes (ie 19-, 36-, 52-, 66-, etc) so there is a pretty good chance the T-6 blueprints will have what you're looking for.
The only ones they definitely won't have are the Noorduyn-built parts with an '07' prefix.
Aircorps Aviation just launched their 'Aircorps Library' that among other types has over 12,000 T-6/SNJ/Harvard drawings that are viewable online and are searchable by part number. The $25 user fee is worth not having the hastle of searching through the microfilms from the NASM.
http://aircorpslibrary.com/
To answer your question, probably not, but 90% of the parts in a Harvard Mk 4 have NAA prefixes (ie 19-, 36-, 52-, 66-, etc) so there is a pretty good chance the T-6 blueprints will have what you're looking for.
The only ones they definitely won't have are the Noorduyn-built parts with an '07' prefix.
Aircorps Aviation just launched their 'Aircorps Library' that among other types has over 12,000 T-6/SNJ/Harvard drawings that are viewable online and are searchable by part number. The $25 user fee is worth not having the hastle of searching through the microfilms from the NASM.
http://aircorpslibrary.com/
Re: Canadian Car and Foundry Harvard Drawings?
Mon Dec 28, 2015 2:25 pm
Does the Aircorps library have early SNJ-2 drawings? I am looking for the 52 series drawings for my project
Re: Canadian Car and Foundry Harvard Drawings?
Wed Dec 30, 2015 9:24 am
It makes sense to use the existing drawings from the G model to the IV. I know the IV has different wing components so I assumed there has to be some factory drawing for the assembly. Does anyone know if the drawings were microfilmed?
PC
PC