This month, work centered on getting the cowling completed, installing the cockpit enclosure, skinning the fuselage undersides, and installing duct covers.
Technicians on the ramp at North American Aviation s Inglewood, California plant, preparing a batch of P-51 Mustangs for delivery. AirCorps Aviation is presently working through a treasure trove of original NAA drawings, cataloguing aviation history for future generations. (Alfred T. Palmer photo via U.S. Library of Congress)
It has been about a year since we reported on the major revelation that many thousand original North American Aviation manufacturing drawings survived destruction during the 1980s because one of their employees, Ken Jungeberg, saved them from incineration. Furthermore, as we also discussed last year, AirCorps Aviation worked out a deal with Jungeberg in 2019 to secure these historic artifacts for their longterm preservation. Ever since their arrival at AirCorps last winter, Ester Aube, the company’s manager for their technical documentation division, AirCorps Library, has been working diligently to preserve and catalogue this massive archive. With so many