Document Type: Textbook (Technical).

Purpose: Training & Education.

Authority: Author Expertise.

Scope: Illustrated textbook and reference book written by Hyman H. Katz, "Engineer, Republic Aviation Corp.; Former Engineer and Instructor, Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp.; former Instructor, Aircraft Drafting, Texas Technological College, and the University of Texas."

From Preface: "This volume is intended as a text and reference book for beginners, students, and other draftsmen who desire to enter the engineering branch of the aircraft industry. It is basic and assumes no previous drafting or special technical training.

The author has kept before him the employer's point of view: he has attempted to coordinate aircraft drafting with functional engineering information, for one without the other is of little practical value in an aeronautical drafting department; the aircraft draftsman is not a "copier" of drawings but an analytical and creative individual."

Contents (from the Table of Contents):

Chapters on the following:

"1. THE AIRPLANE

2. DRAWING INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR USE

3. THE SCALES AND THEIR USE

4. THE ALPHABET OF LINES

5. LETTERING

6. APPLIED GEOMETRY

7. ORTHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION

8. MAKING A DRAWING

9. AUXILIARY VIEWS

10. SECTIONAL VIEWS

11. DIMENSIONING

12. PICTORIAL DRAWING

13. PRODUCTION CHANGES IN AIRCRAFT DRAWINGS

14. MATERIALS IN AIRCRAFT

15. MACHINES AND PROCESSES

16. FASTENERS

17. STANDARD PARTS

18. DASH NUMBERS

19. BILL OF MATERIALS

20. CALCULATION OF WEIGHTS

21. LOFTING

22. DESIGN

INDEX"