Peter B. Kline Papers

MS 165

Wright State University Department of Special Collections and Archives

Processed by: Kathleen L. Spray

August 1987

Introduction

The Peter B. Kline Papers were accessioned by Wright State University Archives and Special Collections in 1986. Aeronautical engineer Peter B. Kline collected the papers and books and magazines pertaining to aviation. His large collection of books is also held by the Wright State Archives. Kline specialized in materials about the WWI era and military aircraft, in general, but his collection covers a wide range of aviation subjects. The time span covered by the collection is 1822 to 1986, but the bulk if the materials are concentrated from 1917 to 1986. Contained in over 46 Hollinger boxes, three of which are oversize, the collection fills 20 linear feet. There are no restrictions on the use of these materials. However, due to the many copyrighted items in the collection, consideration of copyrights is the responsibility of the user.

Series Description

The Kline Papers are divided into seven series, as follows: Series I: Aircraft Identification Subseries 1 Aircraft by Manufacturer Subseries 2 Racers and Air Races Subseries 3 War Planes and Aerial Warfare Subseries 4 U.S. Aircraft Identifications (mostly military) Subseries 5 Multinational Aircraft (mostly military) Subseries 6 Scrapbooks (includes photographs) Series II: Aircraft Construction (Full size and models) Subseries 1 Large Drawings and Blueprints of Aircraft

Subseries 2 Aircraft Components and Accessories/General Pilots Manuals/ Theory of Aerodynamics

Subseries 3 Aircraft Colors and Insignia Subseries 4 Scale Models

Series III: Aviation History Subseries 1 General Aviation History Subseries 2 Museums, Air Shows, and Aviation Collections Subseries 3 Aviation Book Sellers and Book Reviews Subseries 4 Aviation Organizations and Magazines/ Old Aviation Magazines Subseries 5 Military Squadron, Unit, and Base Histories Subseries 6 People in Aviation Subseries 7 Aviation Stories, Poetry, Cartoons, and Movies Subseries 8 Aeronautical Charts Series IV: Personal Papers Series V: Photographs Subseries 1 Photographic prints (includes some negatives) Subseries 2 Movies and Color slides Series VI: Aviation Art (to be processed) Series VII: File Cards (to be processed) Oversize Material Loc 7, Folder 3

Container Listing Series I: Aircraft Identification Subseries 1: Aircraft by Manufacturer (alphabetical order) Box File Description Date

1 1 Albatros (German WWI Pursuit) 1959-1974 2 American Eagle (U.S. Commercial) 1962-1974 3 Arado (German) 1947-1969 4 Armstrong-Whitworth 1934-1963 5 Auster (British Commercial) 1950-1954 6 Austin Motor Company (British WWII) ca. late 1940s 7 Avro (A.V. Roe, British, see also Hawker Siddeley) 1949-1969 8 Barling 1961 9-13 Beech 1930s-1970 14 Bell Aerosystems, V/STOL 1965 15 Bell Aircraft Corporation 1945-ca. 1970s 16 Bell Helicopter Company 1948-1973 17 Bellanca ca. 1930s-ca. 1980s 18 Berliner-Joyce P-16 1970 19 Blackburn (British, see also Hawker Siddeley) ca. 1936-1944 20 Bleriot ca. 1960s Boeing:

2 1 Commercial 1931-1967 2 Clipper ca. 1939 3 Cruising Control Text ca. 1943 4 History ca. 1955-ca. 1960s 5 Model 40 (U.S. Commercial/Mail) 1956 6 Model 100 (U.S. Commercial) 1929-ca. 1954 7 Model 100 (U.S. Commercial) ca. 1966-1979 8 247 (Commercial) ca. 1962-1966 9 707 (Commercial) 1954-1958 10 General Military 1923-1967 11 B-9 (USAAC Bomber) 1971 12 B-17 ca. 1944-1976 3 1 B-17G, Field Service Manual 1945 2 B-29 (U.S. WWII Bomber) 1945-1966 3 B-29, Airplane Commander Training Manual 1944 4 B-29, Airplane Commander Training Manual (Revised) 1945 5-7 B-29, Erection and Maintenance Instructions 1945 8 B-29 and B-29A, Flight Operating Instructions 1945 4 1 B-47 1950-1951 2 B-50 1950s

Box File Description Date 4 3 KC-135A 1960 4 Pilots Handbook for Model N2S-4 (U.S. Navy) ca. 1940s 5 P-9 1930 6 P-12, Philippine Island Summer 1942 Tony Ulrich n.d. 7 P-12 / F4B ca. 1930-1931 8 P-12 / F4B ca. 1932-1979 9 P-12C, drawing and notes by P.B. Kline 1934-1939 10 P-12C / F4B 1962-1975 11 P12E / F4B3, Cleveland model drawings 1933-1982 12 P-26, D-26A 1933-1974 13 PW-9, PN-9 ca. 1960s-1970s 14 Vertol Division ca. 1965 15 Breguet ca. 1962 16 Brewster, F2A (U.S. Navy Fighter) ca. 1920s-1965 17 Bristol, general 1938-ca. 1966 18 Bristol, F2B Fighter (McCook Field, Ohio) 1921 19 Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd. 1954-1955 20 Brunner-Winkle Bird ca. 1974 5 1 Canadair, Military ca. 1950s 2 Canberra B.MK.15 and B.MK.16, Pilots Notes 1961 3 Cessna (U.S. Commercial and Military) ca. 1930s-1975 4 Columbia J2F6 (U.S. Navy) Handbookfor Structural Repair 1944 5-7 Consolidated, Military (see also Convair) ca. 1934-ca. 1970s 8 Consolidated Vultee (Convair) ca. 1943-1946 6 1 Consolidated Vultee (Convair) 1943-1946 2 Convair (see also Consolidated, Consolidates Vultee, Stinson) 1946-ca.1969 3 Curtiss/Curtiss-Wright, History and misc.

(see also Aircraft Armament, Box 26) 1917-ca. 1963

Curtiss: 6 4 Commercial ca. 1960s-1980 5 Military ca. 1932-1971 6 F5L, Flying Boat Handbook (U.S. Navy) Dec. 1918 7 Condor (Bombers) ca. 1950s-1967 8 F8C / O2C, SBC-3, Helldiver, F7C-1 ca. 1932-ca. 1954 9 JN4D Jenny 1917-1962 10 1933 Pursuit Proposal for U.S. Army Air

Corps (includes photographs 1933

11 P-6E 1923-ca. 1930s 12 P-36 Hawk ca. 1940s-1969 13 PW-8A Hawk ca. 1968 14 P40 Warhawk ca. 1942-ca. 1964

Box File Description Date 6 15 P40B and P40C, Handbook of Operational Flight

Instructions 1942

7 1 Curtiss P-55 ca. 1960s 2 Curtiss Seaplane-Scouts ca. 1946 3 Curtiss Reid 1970 4 Darmstadt D-22 (German Sport-Trainer) 1936 5 Dayton-Wright Co. 1966 6 DeHavilland ca. 1915-1970 Douglas: 7 7 History 1934-1961 8 DC-1 through DC-9 (Commercial)

(see McDonnell-Douglas for DC-10) 1945-1971

9 World Cruisers (Commercial) ca. 1930s-1977 10 Military Attack and Cargo ca. 1930s-1977 11 Bombers ca. 1944-ca. 1966 12 Pursuit/Obs./Recon./ Misc. military 1943-ca. 1960s 13 SB6-6 (U.S. Navy) 1944 14 C-47 / R4D ca. 1950s-1967 15 C-5D Transport, Operating Instructions 1941 16 English Electric Company, Cabrerra 1951-1954 17 Fairchild 1950s-1970s 18 Fairey Gannet (British Royal Navy) 1953-1954 19 Fiat Aviation (Italian) ca. 1950s or 1960s 8 1 Fokker (German) ca. 1930s-1966 2 Ford Trimotor (U.S. Commercial, Island Airlines, Port

Clinton, Ohio) 1929-ca. 1980

3 General Aviation 1963 4 General Dynamics (Military) ca. 1969s-1970s 5 Globe GC-1A Swift (U.S. Commercial) 1946 6 Gloster ca. 1930s-1955 7 Great Lakes, General and Correspondence ca. 1930s-1979 8 Great Lakes, Trainer ca. 1930-1970 Grumman:

8 9 History and General 1948-ca. 1967 10 Mallard 1975 11 Military ca. 1939-ca. 1970 12 F4F Wildcat/FM-2 (U.S. Navy) Pilots Handbook 1944 13 Hall-Aluminum Aircraft Corporation Flying Boat ca. 1930s-ca. 1960s 14 Handley-Page (British) ca. 1930s-1971 15 Hamilton Metal Plane Company 1950s-1960s

Box File Description Date 8 16 Hanriot 1961 9 1-4 Hawker (British Military) (see also Hawker Siddeley

and its divisions) 1930s-1976

5 Hawker Siddeley Aviation (see also Blackburn, DeHavilland, Folland, Hawker, Avro (A.V. Roe), Whitworth, Gloster)

ca. 1960s

6 Heinkel ca. 1940-1967 7 Helio, STOL (U.S. Military and Commercial) 1960s 8 Hughes, Helicopter 1966 9 Junkers (German) 1924-1974 10 Junkers, Technical Report on JU-388 L-1 from

USAAC, Wright Field 1946

11 Keystone/Keystone-Loening ca. 1930s-ca. 1972 12-15 Lockheed, History, Commercial, Constellation 1930s-1969 Lockheed:

10 1 Military 1938-1969 2-3 Hudson III Recon.-Bomber Service Instructions ca. 1941 4 P-38 and F-5 Pilots Flight Operating Instructions 1944 5 P2V-4 Pilots Handbook 1951 6 Loening (see also Keystone for Keystone-Loening) ca. 1920s-1967 7 Lysander 1964 Martin:

10 8 History, Commercial 1923-1950 9 Military 1947-1970 10 B-10 (USAAC Bomber) ca. 1930s-1976 11 M-130 1960s 12 B-26 Pilot Training Manual ca. 1944 13 PBM-5 (U.S. Navy) Pilots Handbook 1948

11 1 Martinsyde 1968-1977 McDonnell/McDonnell-Douglas:

11 2 History 1964-1985 3 DC-10 1972 4 Military 1949-1972 5-7 F-4 Phantom 1961-ca. 1970 8-10 Messerschmitt (includes ME 262 Maintenance

Handbook, Report on ME 163, by USAAC) ca. 1930s-ca.1970

11 Monocoupe 1935-1980 12 Morane-Saulnier 1951-1967 13-15 Nieuport ca. 1920-1978

Box File Description Date North American:

12 1 Company Publications 1964-1967 2 Bombers ca. 1945-1973 3 B-25 Mitchell Pilot Training Manual 1940 4 B-25 Mitchell Flight Handbook 1943 5 Fighters and X-15, NA-16, O-47 1950-ca. 1970s 6 Naval Aircraft 1948-ca. 1950s 7 Pursuit ca. 1940s-1968 8 P-51 Mustang Pilot Training Manual 1945 9 P-51D Mustang Flight Handbook ca. 1957 10 T-6, T-28, T-39 1960-1962 11 T-6D Operating Manual 1951 12 T-39A Flight Manual 1962

13 1 Northrop 1943-1973 2 Orenco 1920s 3 Payne Knight Twister (Vest-pocket Pursuit Ship) ca. 1932-1944 4 Pfalz (German WWI Scout) 1935-1976 5 Piper 1942-1954 6 Piper NE-1 pilots Handbook 1942 7 Polikarpov I-16 (Russian WWII Fighter) ca. 1950s-1980s 8 Rearwin (sportster) 1939-ca. 1960s 9 Republic/Seversky 1936-ca. 1968 10 Rockwell International 1974-c. 1980s 11 Roland Aircraft (L.F.G. or Luftfahrzeueug-

Gesellschaft Company) 1957

12 Royal Aircraft Factory (British WWI) 1950-1978 13 Ryan/Teledyne Ryan 1927-1972 14 Ryan FR-1 (U.S. Navy) Pilots Handbook 1945 15 Seversky P-35 1940s 16 Sikorsky (History, Helicopter Pilots Handbook) 1945-ca. 1973 17 Short Bros. (British) 1942-ca. 1950s 18 Siemans-Schuckert D.IV 1956 19 Sopwith 1935-1972 20 S.P.A.D. (Bleriot) 510 C.1 (1933 French Air Force) ca. late 1930s 21 S.P.A.D. XIII C.1 (French WWI Scout) 1918-ca. 1970 22 Stearman ca. 1920s-ca. 1970s 23 Stinson Aircraft corporation (see also Convair) 1932-ca. 1970s 24 Stinson-Vultee L-5 Sentinel Pilot Training Manual 1945 25 Supermarine (Vickers) ca. 1950s-ca. 1960s 26 Temco T-35 Buckaroo ca. 1960s 27 Thomas-Morse 1966 28 Travel-Air 2000 and 4000 (U.S. Commercial) 1928-1980 29 Turner-Laird Meteor ca. 1937

Box File Description Date

13 30 Verville-type Pusher ca. 1920 31 Vickers (British Royal Air force, see also Supermarine) 1931-1969 32 Vought (Military, General) ca. 1930s-ca. 1970s 33 Vought F4U Corsair Flight Handbook 1952 34 Vultee BT-13A Valiant, Pilots Flight Handbook,

(U.S. Army) 1943

14 1 Waco (also Bede Aircraft of Springfield, Ohio) ca. 1930s-1966 2 Westland (British WWI Seaplane) and

Westland/Sikorsky Helicopter (1950s) 1946-ca. 1960s

3 Weatherly Colt ca. 1950s 4 Wing Aircraft Company Derringer (U.S. Commercial) 1971 5 Wright Brothers/Wright Company (U.S. Pioneers) ca. 1940s-1971

Subseries 2: Racers and Air Races Box File Description Date

14 6 Caudron racer C-460 (French Commercial) ca. 1930s-1963 7 Curtiss Racers 1936-ca. 1950s 8 DeHavilland Racers (Comets, Tiger Moth) ca. 1940-1976 9 Granville Brothers Gee Bee 1931-1959 10 Grumman Gulfhawk (Al Williams) ca. 1930s-1950s 11 Howard Racers (Mr. Mulligan, Pete) ca. late 1930s 12 Laird Speedwing Super Solution) ca. 1950s-ca. 1960s 13-14 Wedell-Williams Racers (1933-1934) ca. 1930s 15 Miscellaneous Racers ca. late 1930s-ca. 1973 16 Aerial Acrobatics ca. 1970s-1980s Races and Exibitions:

14 17 All-American Flying Derby 1930 18 Festival of Britain National Air Races 1951 19 Ford Air Tours 1973 20 Goodyear/Continental/Cleveland Air Races ca. 1930s-1940s 21 Miami (Florida) Air Races 1932-1933 22 National Air Races, Official Directories 1937-1938 23 Thompson Trophy Races ca. 1930s-1970s 24 Miscellaneous Races 1929-1970

Subseries 3: War Planes and Aerial Warfare (Chronologically) Box File Description Date

World War I:

14 25 Articles on Balloons ca. 1918 26 Articles on WWI ca. 1918

Box File Description Date

15 1 WWI in Turkey and Egypt (2 chapters of a manuscript by Brian Flanagan)

ca. 1960s

2 Reprints of Out of Control (newspaper published by 1st Pursuit Group in France)

1918

3 WWI Aircraft ca. 1918 4 Miscellaneous Articles and Pictures 1918-ca. 1960s 5 Recognition Manuals (British and French on

Allied and Enemy Aircraft) 1918-ca. 1971

6 WWI Aircraft (articles) 1917-1918 7 Correspondence Column from Flight and

Aeroplane 1950-1954

8 Pictures for Scrapbook (Allied and German Aircraft)

ca. 1917-1918

9 Harborough Pictures ca. 1930s 10 Stories, People, Battles, Count Zeppelin 1909-1975 11 1928-1945: Warplanes Past and Present by Air Books ca. 1960s 12 U.S. Military Aircraft Between WWI and WWII ca. 1960s-1973 WWII:

15 13 Photo Pack #1: 36 Fighting Planes of the Allied Nations

ca. 1940s-1950s

14 WWII Articles ca. 1930s-1968 15 Korean War 1950-1971 16 Vietnam War 1965-1972 17 Israeli-Arab 6-Day War (June 1967) 1967 18 Aerial Warfare (Miscellaneous) 1966

Subseries 4: U.S. Aircraft Identifications (Mostly Military) Box File Description Date

16 1-2 USAF Standard Aircraft Characteristics 1953-1965 3-5 U.S. Military, Characteristics Summary Black Book 1949-1968 6 USAAC Model Designation of Airplanes, 6th ed. 1937 7 Index of AF Serial Numbers Assigned to Aircraft 1958

and prior, Part I: Numerical Listing 1961

8 U.S. Army, Air Service Serial Numbers (1922-1932) 1975 9 Misc. Pictures from Naval Aviation News 1950-1951 10 Naval Aircraft: U.S., British, Canadian (Mostly from

Naval Aviation News) ca. 1949-1969

11 U.S. Military Aircraft 1913-ca. 1970s 12 Color Illustrations from AAHS Journal covers (Military

and Commercial) 1970-1981

13 U.S. Non-Military Aircraft 1938-ca. 1954

Box File Description Date

17 1 U.S. Navy Experimental Airplane Characteristics and Performance Data Sheets

1946

2 U.S. Dept. of Defense Aircraft Recognition Manual 1949 3 USAAF Experimental Planes 1945 4 U.S. Navy, Model Designation of Naval Aircraft 5 U.S. Navy, Model Designation of Naval Aircraft and

Guided Missiles Classified as Restricted 1951

6 U.S. Army Aircraft Descriptions 1958 7 U.S. Dept. of Defense, Model Designation of Military

Aircraft 1962-1963

8 Navy and Marine Corps Air Units: Tail Code Projects 1971 9 Model Designation of Military Aircraft, Rockets, and

Guided Missiles 1974

10 U.S. Army Aircraft Characteristics 1947

Additional Military Aircraft Identifications can be found in Oversize Box 39, as follows: 1 Army Aircraft Model Designation 1946 2 Army Aircraft Characteristics 1946 3 Performance Data from Tests made at Wright Field,

Dayton, Ohio (Bombers, Trainers, and Attack Aircraft) 1930-1938

4 Tactical Planning: Characteristics and Performance Chart 1946

Subseries 5: Multinational Aircraft (mostly military) Box File Description Date

18 1 British Aircraft ca. 1918-ca. 1960s 1a 60 Years of British Aircraft 1984-1985 2 British Aircraft: Farnborough Exhibition 1952-1962 2a Commercial Canadian Airlines 3 French Aircraft ca. 1960- ca. 1972 4 German Aircraft (includes some U.S. aircraft) 1930s-1968 5 German Aircraft: WWII recognition booklets by U.S.

military 1942-1943

6 Japanese Aircraft: WWII ca. 1930s-1969 7-7a Japanese Aircraft: WWII identification by U.S. military 1944-1946 8 Polish Aircraft 1957-1973 9 Soviet Aircraft 1947-1974 10 Multinational Aircraft (mostly warplanes) ca. 1918-ca. 1972 11 Aircraft Intelligence (multinational aircraft

identification from Flight) 1953-1954

12-14 Articles Technical Gen from Royal Air Force Flying Review (multinational aircraft identification)

1955-1960

Box File Description Date

19 1 Facts by Request (multinational aircraft identification) 1964-1969 2 Mixed Pictures of Aircraft 1931-ca. 1970s

Subseries 6: Aircraft Types Box File Description Date

19 3 Airlines and Airmail (History) ca. 1920s-1965

4 Amphibians/Flying Boats ca. 1937 5 Autogiro (History) 1940-1961 6 Balloons and Rigid Lighter-than-Air-Ships ca. 1960s 7 Counter-Insurgency (COIN) Aircraft (U.S. Military) 1964 8 Fighters-multinational ca. 1940-ca. 1976 9 Fighter A to Z from Air Enthusiast (A through D only) 1971-1978 10 Helicopters 1949-1951 11 Lightplanes/Ultralights/Homebuilts ca. 1930s-ca. 1970s 12 Rare birds (Unusual Aircraft) 1931-1975 13 Rockets 1955 14 Trainers 1949-1962 15 Maintenance Information for Training-Type Airplanes 1943 16 Articles from Air Trails about Aircraft types ca. 1930s

Subseries 7: Scrapbooks (includes photographs) Box File Description Date

(Aircraft by Manufacturer: A-D)

20 1 Aeromarine through Avro 1917-1976 2 Beechcraft through Bloch ca. 1930s-1978 3 Boeing ca. 1930s-1967 4 Boeing ca. 1930s-1979 5 Boulton-Paul through Burgess 1917-1973 6 Catalina through Curtiss 1918-1976 7 Dart through Douglas ca. 1943-1984 (Aircraft by manufacturer: F-N)

21 1 Fairchild through Ford Trimotor 1917-1978 2 Gallaudet through Grumman 1917-1976 3 Handley Page through Huntington 1918-1972 4 Jaguar through Junkers 1928-ca. 1957 5 Kawasaki through Knight Twister (Payne) ca. 1950s-1960s 6 Lanzius through Lysander 1917-1974 7 Macchi through McDonnell 1917-1981 8 Messerschmitt 1943-ca. 1960s 9 Mitsubishi through (Thomas) Morse 1918-1976 10 Nieuport 1917-1965

Box File Description Date

21 11 North American 1943-1979 12 Northrop 1962-1965 (Aircraft by Manufacturer: O-Z)

22 1 Orenco ca. 1936 2 Pander through Potez 1930-1973 3 Rohrbach (Roland) through Ryan 1918-ca. 1980 4 Salmson through Sikorsky 1917-1979 5 Sopwith 1917-ca. 1950s 6 S.P.A.D. through Szekaly 1917-1980 7 Travel Air ca. 1960s 8 Vickers/Vickers Armstrong through Vought ca. 1930s-ca. 1970s 9 Waco through Witteman-Lewis 1917-1975 (Racers and Air Races)

22 10 Cessna Racer ca. 1930s 11 Curtis Racers ca. 1960-1970 12 Deperdussin Racer (1912-1913) ca. 1930s 13 Gee Bee Racers 1931-1979 14 Keith Rider R-6 Racer ca. 1960s-1981 15 Roscoe Turner (Turner Special) ca. 1930s-1970s 16 Wendell-Williams Racers 1932-ca. 1964 17 Miscellaneous Racers ca. 1935 18 National Air Races 1962 19 Thompson Trophy Race Winners ca. 1930s-1960s 20 Miscellaneous Air Racing Articles ca. 1965-ca. 1975 (Warplanes/multinational aircraft)

23 1 WWII-First Atom Bombs ca. late 1940s 2 Korean War ca. 1950-1952 3-6 Vietnam War 1965-1966 7 U.S. Military Aircraft ca. 1930s-1974 8 U.S. Spacecraft 1960s 9 Chinese Aircraft (1931-1960s) ca. 1950s-1974 10 German Aircraft (WWI to 1960s) 1930s-1972 11 Soviet Aircraft ca. 1959-ca. 1963

24 1 Aircraft and Spacecraft Specifications (multinational) 1956-1965 2 Multinational Aircraft ca. 1930s-ca. 1970 3 Airlines 1918-1976 4 Fighters ca. 1965 5 Helicopters ca. 1950s-ca. 1960s

Series II: Aircraft construction (Full Size and Models) Subseries 1: Large Drawings and Blueprints of Aircraft Box File Description Date

24 6 Boeing P-12 (by P.B. Kline) and YC-97A 1935-1947 7 Cessna LGA 37 1964 8 Convair F-106 1956 9 Curtiss ca. 1947-1973 10 Fairchild C-123B, C-123 Blackcrow System #1 1952-1967 11 Lockheed F-80, F94D 1944-1951 12-13 McDonnell F-4, markings and insignia 1963

25 1 McDonnell F-4 and F-101B 1956-1966 2 Nieuport 11 and 28 ca. 1950-1970 3 North American F-86 and T-39A 1953-1959 4 Republic F-84A 1947 5 Sopwith 5F.1 Dolphin 1964 6 Racers, drawn by W.F. Kerka 1972-1981 7 WWI Aeroplane drawings 1973-1974 8 Chanutes glider (by P.B. Kline) 1939 9 George Francis Myers, Drawing of Aircraft Inventions:

Helicopter Airplane ca. 1935-1954

Subseries 2: Aircraft Components and Accessories/General Pilots Manuals/ Theory of Aerodynamics (P.B. Klines class notes) Box File Description Date

25 10 Aircraft Engines 1932-1971 11 Aircraft Engines (WWI) 1917-1918 Wright Aircraft Engines:

25 12 Whirlwind (Installation/Maintenance Manual) 1928-1930 13-14 Engineering Officers Handbook 1941-1942 15 Cyclone 9GC, Instruction Book (for installation,

operation, maintenance) 1943

16 Curtiss: OX-5 Aircraft Engine (1927-1929)

26 1-2 Foreign Equipment Catalog 1946 3 Instrument Panels ca. 1967 4 Aerial Recon. 1965 5 Aircraft Armament, History (includes booklet by Curtiss-

Wright Corporation) 1942-1965

6 The Installation of Armament on Aircraft by Peter B. Kline

ca. 1942

7 Flight Test Procedure, U.S. Navy 1939 8 Students Manual: Advanced Single-Engine Flying ca. 1940s

Box File Description Date

26 9 Students Manual: Advanced 2-Enginee Flying ca. 1940s 10 Flying Safety 1943-1946 11-13 Evolution of Maintenance Engineering, 1907-1920 by

Royal D. Frey, Chapters 1-12 (includes photographs) 1960

27 1 Evolution of Maintenance Engineering, 1907-1920,

Chapters 13-18 and End Notes 1960

2 Engineering/Aeronautics, Technical articles ca. 1950s 3 Notable Curtiss military Airplanes, Notable German

Military Airplanes by P.B. Kline ca. 1938

4 Aeronautics (Engineering 833) Exams, University of Virginia

Jul.-Aug. 1942

5 Air Loads (notes and problems), class ending March 1947 at Virginia Polytechnical Institute, also 2 technical leaflets on Air Load Distribution and Strength of Aircraft Elements

1942-1947

6 Aerodynamics 411, 412, 422 (class notes and problems), Virginia Polytechnical Institute (VPI), also VPI Bulletin on the VPI Wind Tunnel

1947

7 Practical Aerodynamics, notes (Reference: Elements of Practical Aerodynamics by Bradley Jones, 3rd ed.)

1947

8 Aerodynamics Laboratory I and II (Aeronautical Engineering), VPI, Blacksburg, Va.

1946-1947

9 Airplane propellers 413 (classnotes, problems), VPI, Winter 1947 10 Airplane performance (Aeronautical Engineering), class

notes, VPI, Spring Quarter 1947

11 Airplane Structures (class notes and problems) ca. 1947 12 Airplane Design: Term Problem by P.B. Kline, VPI June 4, 1947

28 1 Power Plants I-III, class notes and handouts (Aircraft Engine Theory), U.S. Navy Test Pilots Training School (USN TPT School), NATC, NAC Patuxent River, Md.

Mar.-May 1950

2 TPT-Aerodynamics (classnotes and problems), USN TPT School

1950

3 ATIC Performance Notes 1955 1953-1955 4 Aerodynamics Notes (miscellaneous) and undated

NACA Technical Note No. 1670: Appreciation and Prediction of Flying Qualities

ca. 1955

5 Limited Performance and Flying Qualities Evaluation of the USCG EU-16E Airborne Oil Surveillance System Test Aircraft

1974

6-9 Bulletin of the Airplane Engineering Department, USA (title varies), Vol. 1, No. 2-4 and Vol. 2, No. 2

Jul. 1918-Nov. 1918

Box File Description Date National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Reports:

28 10 (Nos. 70, 96, 102, 103, 105, 118) 1920-1921

29 1 (Nos. 119, 134, 135, 148, 153, 155, 162, 167, 170, 193, 204) 1921-1924 2 (Nos. 215, 225, 230, 236, 252, 254, 257, 263, 265, 283) 1925-1928 3 (Nos. 284, 296, 304, 306, 314, 333, 364, 377) 1928-1931 4 (Nos. 403, 405, 406, 414, 418, 434, 441, 442, 484) 1931-1934 5 (Nos. 491, 494, 576, 592, 595, 596, 607, 630, 766) 1934-1943 6 (Nos. 771, 816, 854, 859, 923, 948, 950) 1943-1949 7 (Nos. 997, 1133, 1137, 1156, 1207, 1219, 1937, 1250, 1960,

1295) 1950-1956

Subseries 3: Aircraft Colors and Insignia Box File Description Date

30 1 History of Aircraft Insignia, Markings, and Camouflage 1942

2 WWI Insignia ca. 1930s-1970s 3 US Army Air Corps Insignia (1919-1939) ca. 1934-1983 4 WWII Insignia 1940-1982 5 US Navy Insignia, WWI and Korean War (from NAV AV

News) 1950

6 US Navy Insignia and Markings 1935-1971 7 International Military Insignia 1935-1968 8 Finishes and Markings of USAF Aircraft 1948-1973 9 Commercial Insignia 1936-1969

10 Aircraft Markings on Model Aviation News Covers (mostly WWI scenes)

ca. 1930s

11 Aircraft Markings on Popular Aviation Covers ca. 1934-ca. 1940s

31 1 US Military Color, Finish, Marking Specifications ca. 1930s-1967 2 USAF Color, Finish, Marking Specifications 1967-1983 3 Aircraft Fabric Coverings ca. 1920s-1940s 4 Model Markings, Camouflage (HIS AIR DEC NEWS) 1962-1966 5 USAF Camouflage Color Scheme (F-4D, F100F) 1965-1966 5a USAF Camouflage 1933-1969 6 Army-Navy Aircraft Standard Colors (samples) 1945 7 Army-Navy Aircraft Camouflage Standard Colors (samples) 1943

Subseries 4: Scale Models Box File Description Date

31 8 Model Construction (no model plans, but includes airfoils,

parachutes, engines, guns, plastic construction) ca. 1930s-ca. 1964

9 Model Construction and Conversion Tips 1950s-1966

Box File Description Date

(Additional Model Construction Articles from Air Trails (1940) can be found in Oversize Box 40, File 8)

31 10 Finishing Model Aircraft (paints, cloth coverings, glues,

color mix charts 1937-ca. 1958

11 Scale model catalogs and The Squadron Magazine 1958-1984 12 Model Plan Catalogs: Aeromodellers Plans Service 1948-1953

32 1 Sources for Aircraft Drawings and Misc. Scale Drawings 1944-1980 2 Misc. Model Drawings from Flying Aces and Air Trails ca. 1932-ca. 1955 3 Cleveland model and Supply Co.: Scale Drawings (SE-1

through SE-24) ca. 1930s

4 Paul Leaman-P.B. Kline Correspondence (about C.D. Packard of Cleveland Model Supply Co.)

1974

5 Lindbergh Flying Scale Drawings (List of drawings in 1934-1937 Popular Aviation and in Cross and Cockade

1973

6 Scale Model Drawings by Philip L. Mates for Hawk Model Aeroplanes, WWI through 1930s)

ca. 1933-ca. 1940

7 Scale Models by Wylam: Book 1, William A. Wylam 1943 8 Scale Models by Wylam: Book 2 1945 9 Scale Models by Wylam: Book 3 1947 10 Model Collecting and Collections 1959-1961 11 Models (1914-1939) 1939-1976 12 WWII Models (US) 1967-1971 13 WWII Models from Battle of France and Battle of

Britain ca. 1960s

14 Models of WWII multinational aircraft ca. 1969 15 Models of Military, Commercial, and Private Aircraft,

since 1930s 1937-1977

16 Models from Air Fix Magazine 1964-1965

Series III: Aviation History Subseries 1: General Aviation History Box File Description Date

33 1 Aviation History and Military Air Power ca. 1929-ca. 1975 2 Historical Aircraft Drawings and Art by Douglas Rolfe ca. 1949-ca. 1955 3 50th Anniversary of Aviation 1953 4 Dayton Aviation History 1955 5 The Heritage of Kitty Hawk and Prelude to Kitty Hawk 1955-1956 6 The Wilkins-Hearst Antarctic Expedition 1928-1929

Additional Magazine articles on Aviation History can be found in Oversize Box 40, Files 1-7, as follows:)

Box File Description Date

40 1 Aviation Articles from Colliers 1939-1956 2 Articles from Colliers of the Space program 1952-1954 3 Aviation Articles from Saturday Evening Post 1931-1939 4 Misc. Articles from Saturday Evening Post

(including science fiction) 1954-1963

5 Air Power and Aviation special issue of Fortune Magazine (includes many advertisements for aviation-related products)

March 1941

6 Articles on WWII aviation from Life Magazine ca. 1941 7 Reprint from Atlanta Journal on day of first mail

flight from New York May 2, 1928

Subseries 2: Museums, Air Shows, and Aviation Collections Box File Description Date

33 7 Canadian-National Aeronautical Collection of the National

Museum of Science and Technology ca. 1974

8 Miscellaneous Museums and Collections of Antique Aircraft

1950-ca. 1969

9 Miscellaneous Air Shows and Exhibits 1946-1967 10 Musee De LAir, France (Article in AIR BRITAIN) ca. 1960 11 RAF Museum, Hendon, England 1972 12 Smithsonian Institution, National Aircraft Collection ca. 1930s-1973 13 US Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio (articles, pictures,

cartoons, calendars) ca. 1954-1985

14 US Air Force Museum Catalogs of Aircraft Collections 1965-ca. 1971 15 US Air Force Museum Catalogs of Aircraft Collections ca. 1976-ca. 1980 16 Research Sources (Washington D.C., Delaware) 1973-1979 17 The National Aeronautical Collection n.d.

Subseries 3: Aviation Book Sellers and Book Reviews Box File Description Date

34 1 Airbooks 1944-1952 2 John W. Caler (Aeronautica, Aero-Space-Tech-Tronic

Back-Files Co.) 1965-1967

3 Flightmasters Scale News and Views 1980-1982 4 Dr. S.H. Kleiser (correspondence about Klines purchase

of signed copy of Lafayette Flying Corps by Nordhoff and Hall

1964

5 Aviation Books. C.G.B. Stuart 1959 6 Wright-Patterson Technical Library 1965-1966 7 Book Reviews (mostly from AAHS Journal) ca. 1960s-1973 8 Klines notes about Aviation Books 1968

Subseries 4: Aviation Organizations and Magazines/Old Aviation Magazines Box File Description Date

34 9 Air Britain: National Association of Aviation Enthusiasts,

Air Britain Digest 1959

10 Air Force Historical Foundation, The Air Power Historian (includes index for 1954-1965)

1959-1968

11 Air Pictorial 1955-1964 12 Antique Airplane Association, Antique Airplane News 1960-1982 13 American Aviation Historical Society (AAHS) ca. 1958-1967 14 AAHS Newsletters 1983-1984 15 American Air Racing Society Newsletter 1978-1981 16 Cross and Cockade, Ohio chapter: Newsletters and Minutes 1963 17 Wingfoot Lighter-than-Air Society (Blimps) 1967 18 Magazine Indexes and Klines notes of article locations

(mostly for drawings of aircraft) 1950s-1970s

Old Aviation Magazines:

35 1-2 Air Stories Sep. 1935, Oct. 1936 3 Dare Devil Aces Dec. 1934 4 Dare Devil Aces Mar. 1938 5 Dare Devil Aces Jan. 1940 6 Dare Devil Aces Mar. 1941 7 Dare Devil Aces Sept. 1941 8 Dare Devil Aces Sept. 1942 9 Dare Devil Aces May 1943 10 Flying Aces May 1942, Aug. 1942 11 War Birds Aug. 1937

Subseries 5: Military Squadron, Unit, and Base Histories Box File Description Date

Squadron Histories:

36 1 British RFC/RNAS (Navy)/RAF, WWI 1952-1976 2 British RAF, WWI through WWII 1950-1974 3 British WWII 1945-1964 4 US WWI through 1940 ca. 1960-ca. 1969 5 US, 135th Aero Squadron, WWI 1939-1969 6 US WWII and later 1971-1973 7 US Air Force History 1956 8 US Air Force Organizations, Air Force Report/FY 1981 ca. 1963-1981 9 US Air Fields and Airports, Miscellaneous (Air Force,

Navy, Army, Commercial) 1942-ca. 1973

10 Alaskan Command (1947-1967), ALSIB (1942-1945), USAF

1967-1972

11 Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas (History) 1967-1972

Box File Description Date

36 12 Langley Air Force Base, Virginia (History) 1966 13 McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio (Engineering Division,

USAAS) ca. 1950s

14 Parks Air College, Instruction Books 1929-1930 15 Scampton Air Field, British RAF (History 1917-1967) 1967 16 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Dayton, Ohio

37 1 WPAFB, WADC (Wright Air Development Center) 1952-1974 2 US Navy, BuWeps 1965 3 Patuxent River Naval Air Station, (Test Pilot Training

School, Flight Test Division), [Peter B. Kline was employed as a civilian at Patuxent River NAS from 1948 to 1952. A group photo of the TPT School possibly includes Kline.]

1945-1950

Subseries 6: People in Aviation Box File Description Date

Alphabetical Order:

37 4 Arnold, Henry (Hap) H.; General USAAF, WWI and WWII, student of Wright Brothers

1946-1950

5 Baer, Paul F.; US WWI Ace 1938-1968 6 Bridgeman, Leonard; Artist and WWI Ace 1960s 7 Campbell, Douglas; Letters to his parents (1917-1918), WWI ca. 1968 8 Collishaw, Raymond; British RAF Air Vice-Marshall,

WWI and WWII ca. 1964-ca. 1969

9 Doolittle, James H.; US WWI and WWII 1925-ca. 1976 10 Earhart, Amelia 1977 11 Freeman, Richard S.; USAAC served 1930-1941 (Freeman

Field, Seymour, Ind., named for him) ca. 1950s

12 Gentile, Don S.; Capt. USAAF WWII Ace from Piqua, Ohio 1944 13 Guynemer, Georges; Capt. French WWI Ace ca. 1918-1963 14 Haizlip, James; Racer and WWI pilot 1932-1938 15 Hughes, Howard H. 1976 16 Lambert, William Carpenter; WWI Ace, American in the RAF 1968-1980 17 Lindbergh, Charles A. 1926-1977 18 Loth, Carl C. Rip; Col. WWI, WWII; US aviator 1964-1967 19 Ordway, Frederick I.; WWI (27th Aero Squadron) and

WWII 1963

20 Parsons, Edwin C.; Rear Admiral, US Navy 1964 21 Patterson, Frederick B.; WWI Aviator, NCR Corporation,

Dayton, Ohio 1919

22 Reinburg, J. Hunter; Col. US Marine Corps Reserve, WWII Ace

1949-1965

Box File Description Date

37 23 Richardson, Roland W.; WWI (includes photo of model Nieuport 17 built by P.B. Kline

1964

24 Rickenbacker, Eddie; Capt. US Ace, WWI ca. 1918-1973 25 Springs, Elliott White; Col. US Ace WWI in Royal Flying

Corps and US Air Service 1927-1959

26 Weaver, Truman C.; Aviation movies, Air racing , aviation history, model planes

1955-1982

27 Whitehouse, Arch; WWI flyer, author, 22nd Squadron RAF/RFC

1941-1957

28 Wright Brothers 1946-ca. 1949 Other People in Aviation:

38 1 Aces, American (1917-1953) 1944-1962 2 Aces, European (WWII, mostly Russian) ca. 1955-ca. 1965 3 WWI Aviators, multinational 1947-ca. 1969 4 Lafayette Escadrille 1928-1968 5 WWI Veterans at Reunion, June 1961, Dayton, Ohio ca. 1961 6 WWI Roster of War Birds at British WWI Reunion 1968 7 WWII 1971 Fighter Ace Reunion ca. 1971 8 Early Birds 1953 9 Miscellaneous People in Aviation 1927-1968

Subseries 7: Aviation Stories, Poetry, Cartoons, and Movies Box File Description Date

38 10 WWI Stories by Elliott White Springs from Liberty and

War Birds, Diary of an American Flyer (parts 7-15) ca. 1918

11 WWI Aviation Films 1930-1967 12 WWII Aviation Films (includes photos) 1954-ca. 1974 13 Miscellaneous Aviation Films 1970-1981 14 Fall Guys by Dick Grace (stunt aviator), and program for

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines ca. 1920-1965

15 WWI Songs, Poems, and Cartoons ca. 1950s 16 WWII Songs and Poems ca. 1940s-ca. 1960s 17 Poems and Cartoons ca. 1950s-ca. 1970s 18 Milton Caniff Cartoons 1947-1957 19 Vought (Corsair) Cartoons by R. Osborn 1949-1950

39 1-4 (Listed after Box 17 Military Aircraft Identifications)

40 1-7 (Listed after Box 32, File 4 Magazine Articles on Aviation History)

8 (Listed with Box 31 Model Construction)

Box File Description Date Cartoons (continued):

41 1 Oversize Milton Caniff Cartoon 1943

Subseries 8: Aeronautical Charts

Box File Description Date

41 2 Aeronautical Charts 1959-1967

Series IV: Personal Papers Box File Description Date

41 3 Papers of Janet Forrestel Kline/Forrestel Family 1949-1981

4 Papers of Peter B. Kline, WWII and photographs ca. 1942-1945 5 Papers of Peter B. Kline, Employment Records 1948-1956 6 Scrapbook from family of Janet Forrestel Kline, including

loose pages from a ledger book with entries dated 1825-1832. Scrapbook contains news clippings about family members and poetry, dated 1850s to ca. 1950. The clippings mostly refer to people living in the area of Saratoga, New York.

Series V: Photographs Subseries 1: Photographic prints

Box File Description Date Aircraft by Manufacturer (alphabetical order):

42 1 Arado, Atlantic, Barling ca. 1950s 2 Beech (SNB-5) ca. 1949 3 Bell Aircraft Corporation/ Bell Helicopter Co. ca. 1960s-1970s 4 Blackburn ca. 1950s-1970s Boeing:

42 5 P-12/F4B (see also slide in Folder 46.9) (one of the men in these photos may be P.B. Kline)

ca. 1950s-1983

6 P-26, P-29 ca. 1950s-ca. 1970s 7 B-17, B-29, Chinook helicopter, Cargo planes ca. 1960s 8 B-29 (in-flight refueling process) ca. 1950 9 B-29 (mother ship for experimental craft) 1951 10 B-47 ca. 1950s-1970s 11 B-50, B-52 and flight crews ca. 1950s-ca. 1960s 12 Breguet, Columbia, Consolidated, Consolidated Vultee,

Convair 1947-ca. 1950s

Box File Description Date

43 1 Curtiss, Miscellaneous ca. 1950s-1970s 2 Curtiss, pursuit ca. 1940s-1960s 3 Curtiss-Robin, Curtiss-Wright ca. 1930s-ca. 1950s 4 Dassault Mystere IV A ca. 1950s-1960s 5 DeHavilland ca. 1950s-ca. 1970s 6 Douglas ca. 1950s-ca. 1970s 7 Douglas World Cruisers ca. 1960s 8 Gloster, Gall ca. 1950s-1960s 9 Fairchild ca. 1948-1950s 10 Fisher, Fleetwing, Fokker, Focke-Wulf ca. 1950s-ca. 1970s 11 Ford 1967 12 Great Lakes Trainer ca. 1950s-ca. 1970s 13 Grumman ca. 1949-1969 14 Handley Page ca. 1930s-1970s 15 Junkers ca. 1960s-1970s 16 Lockheed ca. 1960s-1970s 17 Loening, Macchi ca. 1950s-ca. 1960s

44 1 Martin (except PBM) ca. 1920s-ca. 1951 2 Martin PBM-5 (US Navy Patrol Bomber) ca. 1949 3 McDonnell ca. 1950s-ca. 1960s 4 McDonnell-Douglas YC15 1977 5 Messerschmitt ca. 1960s-ca. 1970s 6 Nieuport ca. 1930s-ca. 1970s North American:

44 7 North American (except P-51 and F-51) ca. 1940s-ca. 1960s 8 Mustang P-51 and F-51 ca. 1944-1961 9 X-15 1958-1959 10 Models of Experimental Aircraft including the

North American X-15, Bell D-171, and Republic AP-76

ca. 1950s

11 XSN2J-1 1948 12 Northrop, Pitcairn 1965 13 Republic (and predecessor Seversky) 1940s-1970s 14 Rockwell International B-1 prototype ca. 1975 15 Ryan B-5, Sikorsky helicopter ca. 1950s-1970s 16 S.P.A.D. ca. 1970s 17 Temco Aircraft Corporation ca. 1960s 18 Thomas-Morse ca. 1930s-ca. 1960s 19 Timm, Vought, Vultee ca. 1920s-ca. 1970s 20 Waco 1960s 21 Wright Brothers/Wright Company ca. 1960s

Box File Description Date Photo Scrapbooks:

45 1 Part I (Aeronca-Douglas) ca. 1930s-ca. 1960s 2 Part II (Douglas-Sikorsky) ca. 1930s-ca. 1960s 3 Part III (Sikorsky-Waco and unknown) ca. 1930s-1960s Other Photographic Prints:

45 4 Air Force Museum, Aircraft on Exhibit (part 1) 1957-1959 5 Air Force Museum, Aircraft on Exhibit (part 2) 1957-1959 6 Drawing and photos of Aircraft from Aircraft Year

Books of the late 1920s and early 1930s (prints and negatives)

1950s-1987

7 Trading cards of USN and USAAC aircraft ca. early 1940s 8 US military aircraft ca. 1960s 9 USAF Historical Aircraft, Photo package No. 2 1971 10 Air Shows, WPAFB 1958-ca. 1960s 11 Racers ca. 1930s-ca. 1970s 12 Laird Super Solution Historical Album 1980 13 Gliders ca. 1960s 14 Armament/Communications ca. 1950s 15 Engines of Aircraft ca. 1950s 16 Aircraft Colors and Insignia, Squadron Insignia ca. 1950s-1983

46 1 Aircraft Line Drawings and Cartoons on Printers Kodalith film

1961

2 Summary of Air Information (Mar.-Sep. 1918), AEF (WWI)

1962

3 Dardanellen-Flieger by Kapitanleutnantz D. Liebmann, published in Berlin, 1918. pp. 3- 128 plus pictures

1965

4 Squadrons ca. 1918 5 Selfridge Field, Michigan ca. 1930s 6 Coffeyville AAF Field, Kansas

(2nd Lt. P.B. Kline was stationed at Coffeyville ca. March 1944-April 1945 as Engineering Officer of aircraft maintenance on P-38s and B-25s)

ca. 1944-1945

7 People in Aviation ca. 1950s-ca. 1970s 8 Butcher, Percy E.; British WWI, RFC/RAF ca. 1914-ca. 1960s Movies and Color Slides:

46 9 35mm movies of landing/take-off tests at Patuxent River NAS (P.B. Kline, engineer), and color slides of aircraft

1949-1983