LMAO I guess I have a first printing...
You do, at that. Congratulations, it might be worth $5 some day.
Didn't notice it 'til I pointed it out, though, I bet. I didn't notice it either, until a sharp-eyed co-worker spotted it.
6PC said:
Never mind....I already bought the plane
But...but...the second edition has a Cirrus on the cover!
*How* the Cirrus ended up on the cover is an interesting journey. The editing of the second edition was outsourced to India.
Their English and grammar skills were faultless. Their knowledge of American idiom, aircraft, and for that matter, technical issues in general was non-existent.
They changed "it will be like old home week" to "old home work." When I referred to keeping a tiedown kit in an old GI knapsack, they changed it to "Gastro-Intestinal" knapsack.
At least more of the pure aircraft stuff they queried me about. But the first cover design was a guy in an airline captain's uniform, standing under the tail of a bizjet.
The technical issue I remember the most was their unfamiliarity with US tool standards. Everywhere I used a slash in a fractional tool size (e.g., 9/16" wrench), they changed it to a dash... "9-16" wrench.
Now, before y'all rush out and buy a copy to see, I managed to get everything corrected back. It was just an unusual degree of involvement being required in the editing phase.
Ron Wanttaja