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Gallery: Classic Flight Manuals - B-58A, F-14A, Apollo, Gemini

: Photo: Dan WintersThe Convair B-58 Hustler was the first supersonic bomber in the United States' air arsenal. Its first flight was November 11, 1956, during the peak of hostilities with the Soviet Union, and was designed as a high-altitude, faster-than-screaming bomber with nuclear capabilities. However, the B-58 is probably best known as the airplane that nuked Moscow (and then New York City) into oblivion in the 1964 Cold War classic film, Fail Safe. Pages shown here describe how to land the plane, ejection, the fuel supply system, and a very top-level look at the cockpit. Listen: Photographer Dan Winters and writer Mathew Honan discuss the B-58A and F-14A. Manual courtesy of and photographed at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. : Photo: Dan Winters: Photo: Dan Winters: Photo: Dan Winters: Photo: Dan WintersThe two-tailed Grumann F-14A Tomcat flew to fame in Top Gun, but it took off long before. The F-14 went into service in 1970 and continued to dominate the skies all the way until 2006. This 1977 manual gave Navy flyboys information on the aircraft's flight operations and weapons systems. Want to make like Maverick and "hit the brakes and he?ll fly right by?" See Figure 1-47 in section 1 page 24. And if that didn't go so well, here?s everything you need to know to eject out of the canopy. Manual courtesy of and photographed at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. : Photo: Dan Winters: Photo: Dan Winters: Photo: Dan Winters: Photo: Dan Winters: Photo: Dan Winters Think of this 1966 manual as the space program's equivalent of a Quick Start Guide given to Apollo program astronauts to introduce them to the gear found onboard their spacecraft. Meant to give an overview of everything astronauts would encounter onboard, the manual goes over everything from the contents and location of the two onboard survival kits to human tolerance of G forces, to how to go to the bathroom. The illustrations shown here describe the crew?s garments that would have been worn at all times, and the restraint system that kept crew members safely strapped in the capsule. Listen: Photographer Dan Winters and writer Mathew Honan discuss the Apollo Study Guide. Manual courtesy of and photographed at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. : Photo: Dan Winters: Photo: Dan WintersFamiliarization manuals were designed to teach mission pilots everything they needed to know about their craft before takeoff. Portions of the Gemini manual describes a unique feature of Gemini: the capsule's ejection seat. Of the three manned space programs of the 1960s, Gemini alone featured an aircraft-style ejection seat to blast astronauts out of the craft to parachute back down to Earth in case of a botched launch or reentry. Note the event times, showing the hundredths of seconds that would elapse between steps in the ejection process. Listen: Photographer Dan Winters and Mathew Honan discuss the Gemini Familiarization Manual. Manual courtesy of and photographed at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. : Photo: Dan Winters: Photo: Dan Winters: Photo: Dan Winters: Photo: Dan Winters