Bàidh Stidean said:
And sitting in a bookcase not two feet from me is "Mechanic's B-727
Reference Handbook" in a binder with the Braniff logo and "Prepared by
BI Technical Training" 2/1/66, and covering the model -027QC, an
aircraft unique to Braniff.
Splappy doesn't realize that the microfilm tapes were produced from a
PAPER copy of the manual. We had a nice little expensive machine that
would feed each sheet in and take a photo. Then we would have the film
developed and duplicated into those lovely little microfilm cartridges
that loved to jam and break the film.
Hell, the ten copies of the Airbus A320 maintenance manuals we inherited
from Pan American were on paper. Ten copies of the entire maintenance
manual set - they were shipped to us on two pallets and each pallet was
stacked about four feet high - nothing but paper. No fiche, no
microfilm. We trashed about six sets of the damn things down in Orlando.
We spent thousands of dollars converting the paper manuals to microfilm
so that the line stations could have a copy.
Tom Mosher
Braniff Technical Publications
1988 to 1989 (the fateful November 1989 when we stopped operating)