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Templets and Layout: Mock Up, Part 1, 1943, 5¼ x 8¼, 40 pages. Mock-ups are used for developing aircraft contours, especially where irregular and complicated shapes are located. This booklet is illustrated with over 30 photos and a dozen drawings show a mock-up department, and the actual building of a plaster mock-up. Includes explanations of reference lines and checking procedure; laying out lines; methods of scribing lines on horizontal mock-ups; and laying out lines on circular and large vertical mock-ups.
Templets and Layout: Mock Up, Part 2, 1943, 5¼ x 8¼, 39 pages. This booklet continues the explanation of Part 1, but is devoted to building female plaster casts of mock-ups. It is as richly illustrated as Part 1. Sections include Taking Pattern of Airplane Parts from Plaster Cast; Taking Die Impression from Plaster Cast; Making Kirksite Form-Block Pattern; Forming Circular Female Contour in Plaster Mold; Bridge Parallel Fixture for Checking Pattern Draft. The second half deals with Box Templet and Wood Mock-up, including Box Templet for Checking Form of Skin Sections; Scribing Straight Trim Lines; Scribing Radial Trim Lines; and making a Full-Size Wooden Mock-up of an entire aircraft.