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[StartQuote] Hi Ed . . . I barrowed the microfilm from Al Ross, and had it scanned. The quality issue is two-fold. One was the U.S. Navy did an absolute terrible job filming the engineering drawings, the old phrase comes to mind "it's good enough for government work". Secondly the age of the film and its developing process is seriously deteriorating the quality of the images. Modern day technology is better, but nothing is as good as good old electronically digitized images. I wasn't aware HQ even had microfilm reels until just very recently. I'm afraid it will be suffering the same ailment. I have been talking with Alyce about loaning them to me to determine what could be scanned or what would be a waste of money - but that subject hasn't been resolved as of yet. The Archives has the main Elco 77' reel labeled as "310", I'm not sure if there are others, there should be many more if all drawings were microfilmed. For a project of that size there should two to three thousand drawings including engineering control records. The Elco 80' had five reels found, but again there should be at least another half to full dozen reels floating around the NARA, somewhere. The Higgins and Huckins microfilm still proves to be mystery to me, specially the Huckins. Dick . . . PS: Thank you to everyone for your nice comments. [EndQuote]
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