On Friday 21 March 2008, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 10:23 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
However, the 747, 757 and 767 manuals all have preflight inspection steps including "remove all covering material from the pitot tubes" and "remove wheel chocks before attempting to taxi".
While we're digressing about manuals, I was somewhat amused by something I was told by a colleague, years ago: The service manuals for one of the broadcast television cameras (I think it was a Marconi) all had CPR instructions in the front, just in case someone working on them got bitten by the electricity.
One of my favourite personal discoveries while doing some servicing work at a local studio was finding an aspirin taped inside the chassis of a computer. It caused some mirth while we debated whether it was supposed to help the crappy PC, or was there to help the next poor sod who had to work on it. ;-)
And then there was the manual that came with the Bell TR-7 1/4" audio tape recorder, circa 1956 or so. It said in rather large type,
Please try our way first!
Loved it, never forgot it.