"Flight thru Instruments" 1945 pilot-training manual designed under Harley Earl

while Ryan is on the subject of vintage illustration, and aircraft - heres a really amazing piece here designed under Harley Earl - amazing info-graphic work, and just damn cool

http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2007/11/flight-thru-ins.html

additional Flickr shots from the book here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/sets/72157603240365315/

amazing stuff - Edward Tufte would approve...

 

Wow. As a private pilot, I was 4/5 of the way thru my instrument rating before I ran out of money. The ground instruction was not as neat as the illustrations Harley Earl did... and flying without a heading indicator (just a compass) would be a bugger.

 

more great Harley Earl stuff here

http://www.carofthecentury.com/

 

This ONE illustration tells you more than you'd learn reading the book!
Stunning!


A picture really is worth a thousand words.

 

as a side bar...I have a lot of WWII instruments and panels that didn't get used in the coupe...pm me

 

I'm getting a gay vibe. I think he shoulda used sluts with wings instead.