NATOPS Flight Manual; Navy Model P-3A Aircraft NAVWEPS 01-75PAA-1

Vietnam War era Navy Flight Manual. Sections are individually paginated. Approximately 1.75 inches thick. Illustrations (Tabular data, figures, photographs, drawings). and fold-outs (with some color). Cover has wear and soiling. Change notice worn, soiled with frayed edge. Name of previous owner on front cover. This manual supersedes NAVWEPS 01-75PAA-1 dated 1 December 1963, Changed 1 December 1964. This manual is to be used in conjunction with Supplemental NATOPS Flight Manual NAVWEPS 01-75PAA-1A, and Supplemental NATOPS Flight Manual NAVAIR 01-75PAA-1A The sections are: Aircraft, General, Normal Procedures, Flight Characteristics, Emergency Procedures, All-Weather Operation, Communication Procedures, Flight Crew Duties and Procedures, Standardization Evaluation, Performance Data and Index. Information on Weapons System is located in NAVWEPS 01-75PAA-1A Supplemental NATOPS Flight Manual. Interim Change Summary, listing numerous changes, is at the front. There is a Letter of Promulgation dated 1 December 1963 and signed by Vice Admiral J. S. Thach, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air). Table of Contents includes a note that the List of Illustrations--Titles Included in Alphabetical Index. This is the Flight Manual that was in use during a major portion of the U.S. Navy's involvement in the Vietnam War. The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a four-engine turboprop anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft developed for the United States Navy and introduced in the 1960s. Lockheed based it on the L-188 Electra commercial airliner. The aircraft is easily distinguished from the Electra by its distinctive tail stinger or "MAD Boom", used for the magnetic detection of submarines. Over the years, the aircraft has seen numerous design developments, most notably in its electronics packages. Numerous navies and air forces around the world continue to use the P-3 Orion, primarily for maritime patrol, reconnaissance, anti-surface warfare and anti-submarine warfare. A total of 757 P-3s have been built and, in 2012, it joined the handful of military aircraft including the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, Lockheed C-130 Hercules and the Lockheed U-2 that the United States military has been using for more than 50 years. In October 1962, P-3A aircraft flew several blockade patrols in the vicinity of Cuba. Having just recently joined the operational Fleet earlier that year, this was the first employment of the P-3 in a real world "near conflict" situation. The only confirmed combat loss of a P-3 also occurred during Operation Market Time. In April 1968, a U.S. Navy P-3B of VP-26 was downed by anti-aircraft fire in the Gulf of Thailand with the loss of the entire crew. Two months earlier, in February 1968, another one of VP-26's P-3B aircraft was operating in the same vicinity when it crashed with the loss of the entire crew. Originally attributed to an aircraft mishap at low altitude, later conjecture is that this aircraft may have also fallen victim to anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) fire from the same source as the April incident. Stiff card cover and five-hole punched binder Two holes have screw-pins This publication is a combined Change and Reprint with all unchanged as well as changed pages included.…