Torpedo Instruction Pamphlet TS-5

Created during WWII as an official training manual for the Fleet Torpedo School this whopping 575+ page pamphlet contains everything you ever wanted to know about aircraft-launched torpedoes. Within its pages youll find rare photographs and diagrams as well as informative text. This includes a brief history of the torpedo and a full rundown of the Mark 13 the first American torpedo to be designed solely for aircraft launch (although they were also used aboard P.T. Boats). Chapters include: exercise heads and attachments war head and attachments air flask and midship section reducing superheating system and starting gear propulsion mechanism depth control mechanism gyro mechanism including a description of Gyro Mark 12-1 adjustment and tests and a discussion of loading air trajectory and stabilizers. Originally restricted this manual was declassified long ago. This high quality facsimile was created from a rare original. It presents the book in its entirety for the first time in 70 years.