Author: United States. Army. Air Corps
Publisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Aeronautical Bulletin
Author: United States. Army. Air Corps
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Aeronautical Bulletin..State Series
Author: United States. Army. Air Corps
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Aeronautical Bulletin.....State Summmaries Series
Author: United States. Army. Air Corps
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Reports
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Flying the Beam
Author: Henry R. Lehrer
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1612493394
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
With air travel a regular part of daily life in North America, we tend to take the infrastructure that makes it possible for granted. However, the systems, regulations, and technologies of civil aviation are in fact the product of decades of experimentation and political negotiation, much of it connected to the development of the airmail as the first commercially sustainable use of airplanes. From the lighted airways of the 1920s through the radio navigation system in place by the time of World War II, this book explores the conceptualization and ultimate construction of the initial US airways systems.The daring exploits of the earliest airmail pilots are well documented, but the underlying story of just how brick-and-mortar construction, radio research and improvement, chart and map preparation, and other less glamorous aspects of aviation contributed to the system we have today has been understudied. Flying the Beam traces the development of aeronautical navigation of the US airmail airways from 1917 to 1941. Chronologically organized, the book draws on period documents, pilot memoirs, and firsthand investigation of surviving material remains in the landscape to trace the development of the system. The author shows how visual cross-country navigation, only possible in good weather, was developed into all-weather "blind flying." The daytime techniques of "following railroads and rivers" were supplemented by a series of lighted beacons (later replaced by radio towers) crisscrossing the country to allow nighttime transit of long-distance routes, such as the one between New York and San Francisco. Although today's airway system extends far beyond the continental US and is based on digital technologies, the way pilots navigate from place to place basically uses the same infrastructure and procedures that were pioneered almost a century earlier. While navigational electronics have changed greatly over the years, actually "flying the beam" has changed very little.
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1612493394
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
With air travel a regular part of daily life in North America, we tend to take the infrastructure that makes it possible for granted. However, the systems, regulations, and technologies of civil aviation are in fact the product of decades of experimentation and political negotiation, much of it connected to the development of the airmail as the first commercially sustainable use of airplanes. From the lighted airways of the 1920s through the radio navigation system in place by the time of World War II, this book explores the conceptualization and ultimate construction of the initial US airways systems.The daring exploits of the earliest airmail pilots are well documented, but the underlying story of just how brick-and-mortar construction, radio research and improvement, chart and map preparation, and other less glamorous aspects of aviation contributed to the system we have today has been understudied. Flying the Beam traces the development of aeronautical navigation of the US airmail airways from 1917 to 1941. Chronologically organized, the book draws on period documents, pilot memoirs, and firsthand investigation of surviving material remains in the landscape to trace the development of the system. The author shows how visual cross-country navigation, only possible in good weather, was developed into all-weather "blind flying." The daytime techniques of "following railroads and rivers" were supplemented by a series of lighted beacons (later replaced by radio towers) crisscrossing the country to allow nighttime transit of long-distance routes, such as the one between New York and San Francisco. Although today's airway system extends far beyond the continental US and is based on digital technologies, the way pilots navigate from place to place basically uses the same infrastructure and procedures that were pioneered almost a century earlier. While navigational electronics have changed greatly over the years, actually "flying the beam" has changed very little.
Wisconsin Aviation Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Publisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Cumulative Title Index to United States Public Documents, 1789-1976
Author: Sandra K. Faull
Publisher: Arlington, Va. : United States Historical Documents Institute
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher: Arlington, Va. : United States Historical Documents Institute
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2476
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2476
Book Description
Aircraft Yearbook
Author:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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