Hi! Rowland./SteveD.
Where is the guy who wants the classic manual?
I have a trike manual and should have a mono manual but "cards on the table"
I'm very sensitive about parting with either.
I'm not going to verify having the second one at present since it is in a
place which is likely about minus 5 degrees !
I've been bitten before with supplying photo negatives etc. and even a video
of the re-assembly of the Blackburn Beverley, people just get blank memories
and don't make the ultimate commitment to you and if they make the
commitment they don't live up to it. Not withstanding it is a valuable item
when you are selling your completed bird on.
Regards
Bob Harrison G-PTAG
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Rowland Carson
Sent: 08 January 2010 17:25
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Wanted Classic Build manual
>I have a user on EuropaOwners looking for a Classic Build Manual. He
>has a third hand kit and has contacted Europa they and don't have
>the docs. Can anybody help a brother out? Europa Club Should I point
>him your way?
Steve - as Brian Davies says, we only have the XS manual available.
AFAIK the Classic manual was never seen in the wild as a PDF.
Obviously it originally existed as a soft-copy at the factory
(although drawings might have been hand-originated), but the version
control seemed a bit sloppy in the early days, leading me to suspect
that some early pages got over-written rather than archived when
superseded. I don't know what software tool was used to write the
manuals. Of course some soft-copy (such as customer records!) was
lost (read: destroyed before the chopper left the roof) in 2004.
Don't know if Roger is still monitoring this forum and could comment.
Or maybe Andy Draper could tell us, if he had a minute to spare - and
come to think of it, he might just have a copy of the original manual
tucked away somewhere. LAA Engineering must have seen the manual to
approve the design and insert the inspection points, so even if Andy
doesn't have his own copy, there should be an authentic copy in the
LAA Engineering files. Their archives were digitised some time back,
so maybe that is the best place to start hunting.
My own attempts to contact Engineering by e-mail have so far been
totally unsuccessful so perhaps someone else might take this forward
- Ian Rickard? If they've got it, seems an argument could be made for
releasing a soft-copy of the Classic build manual to the Europa Club,
simply on the grounds that the Club could field queries in the future
and thus save LAA Engineering some time.
regards
Rowland
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