Aircraft Industry Book featuring many Catalogs!
1957 Edition

Included in this book, is the Johns-Manville Aviation Products catalog, which is 11 pages in length.  It features a lot of information about asbestos-containing products and has pictures of them being used in airplanes.

There is one paragraph about Style No. 920 gaskets which are described as containing asbestos. It says, "... Style No.920 gaskets are widely used on hot flanges and heater ducts in aircraft of the USAF and the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics."  [Paragraph is pictured below.]

Other products featured and described:

- Firewall Seals / Tadpole Tapes - Chart shows styles, construction and sizes.  All of the styles described (Inconel mesh, Synthetic rubber, neoprene tubing) are listed as containing asbestos.
- Picture shows Johns-Manville Tadpole Tape installed on the Lockheed F-80 jet fighter.
- Picture show installation of Johns-Manville Tadpole Tape on a J33 turbojet engine
- High Temperature Resistant Neoprene Asbestos Sheets... With pictures of its installation on aircraft and chart describing construction.
- Asbestos Gaskets, Asbestos Blast Tubing, Asbestos Flexible Connectors (With pictures of them installed.)
- Asbestos Textiles... with pictures of the asbestos tape installed on aircraft. Pictures are courtesy of Lockheed Aircraft Corp & Delta Airlines
- Inconel Packings.. One style of which is described as containing asbestos.
- Metallic Gaskets with Asbestos Filler

This catalog also has a Products Directory section, which lists the companies that manufactured asbestos products (cloth, paper, packing, sheet, etc).

There is also an advertisement by The Lewis Engineering Co. for Aircraft Electrical Cable.  The advertisement says, "Abrasion and fire resistance of asbestos."

CONDITION: Very Good condition, minor cover wear. Owner stamp to first page.

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