You could build a Tailwind without it, but you would be guessing at a lot of things. Buy this book if you have any intention of actually building this airplane.

Clean plans and documentation. Full sized rib drawings for root and common ribs. These are the redrawn plans, not the originals. It would have been nice to have also had a copy of the originals included just for historical purposes.

The V Whitt racer plans are of good print quality, they do not show the later trapezoid wing tips, that would be nice to have, have to figure it out from the other tailwind plans! Plans are to build one, really like Steves idea to mount the VW engine so the flywheel end drives the prop!

I was disappointed by this manual. I found it to be little more than lackluster illustrations, accompanied by notes, rather than clear instructions backed up by photographs and better examples. This is not a comprehensive finishing manual, nor is present clarifying points on building the entire plane. This manual is helpful with construction specific to the Wittman Tailwind wings. It also mentions a few ideas pertaining to upholstery and flooring. If you are looking for a step by step manual to accompany your plans, you will.be utterly let down. IIf you are looking for just a couple good ideas andore history on the Tailwind, you will benefit from buying this. I.n Other words, you can get more ideas by looking at work in progress pictures on building logs, coupled with forum questions and answers.

poorly photocopied black and white pictures are useless , the machines drawings are ok, not much information here