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OBJECT TYPE: Aircraft recognition
DATE: 1944
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 1993.0578.015

MANUFACTURER: U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
MODEL: Air Speed Horsa
LOCATION: Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 15
Total Parts: 67
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: paper

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 63.5 cm
Width: 47.0 cm
Height: N/A
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Aviation
Category: Archives
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Defense US
Country: United States of America
State/Province: District of Columbia
City: Washington

Context

Country: Worldwide
State/Province: Unknown
Period: WWII (1939-1945); this poster dated Feb. 1944
Canada: Unknown
Function: likely used to train air force personnel and civilian observers to identify various military aircraft and especially to correctly differentiate between friendly and enemy aircraft
Technical: Unknown
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: printed lettering reads: "R.A.F./AIR SPEED/HORSA/GLIDER/[logo]/U.K./U.S. NAVY, BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS, FEB., 1944/FROM DATA CURRENTLY AVAILABLE/RESTRICTED/SCALE/6-FOOT/MAN/U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944 - 0 - 572602"
Missing: N/A
Finish: black lettering; b + w illustrations on grey and tan-white background
Decoration: drawing of airplane in flight; profile sketches, top, front & side view, captioned & scale; roundel logo at top right

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U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, Poster, 1944, Artifact no. 1993.0578, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1993.0578.015/

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