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Blind Landings: Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918–1958
Erik M. Conway
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Description for Blind Landings: Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918–1958
Hardback. By the end of World War II, the very concept of landing blind therefore had disappeared from the trade literature, a victim of human limitations. Num Pages: 256 pages, 23, 14 black & white halftones, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; TBX; TRP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
When darkness falls, storms rage, fog settles, or lights fail, pilots are forced to make "instrument landings," relying on technology and training to guide them through typically the most dangerous part of any flight. In this original study, Erik M. Conway recounts one of the most important stories in aviation history: the evolution of aircraft landing aids that make landing safe and routine in almost all weather conditions. Discussing technologies such as the Loth leader-cable system, the American National Bureau of Standards system, and, its descendants, the Instrument Landing System, the MIT-Army-Sperry Gyroscope microwave blind landing system, and the MIT ... Read more
When darkness falls, storms rage, fog settles, or lights fail, pilots are forced to make "instrument landings," relying on technology and training to guide them through typically the most dangerous part of any flight. In this original study, Erik M. Conway recounts one of the most important stories in aviation history: the evolution of aircraft landing aids that make landing safe and routine in almost all weather conditions. Discussing technologies such as the Loth leader-cable system, the American National Bureau of Standards system, and, its descendants, the Instrument Landing System, the MIT-Army-Sperry Gyroscope microwave blind landing system, and the MIT ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801884498
SKU
V9780801884498
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About Erik M. Conway
Erik M. Conway is a historian at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, and author of High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945-1999, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for Blind Landings: Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918–1958
Compact but quite readable book; it should interest all airline passengers who wonder how pilots land safely in an environment where they can barely see their hands before their faces. Choice 2007 A key piece in the patchwork of the history of aviation.
Christian Gelzer Journal of Transport History 2007 Conway's intelligent analysis differentiates this volume from many books ... Read more
Christian Gelzer Journal of Transport History 2007 Conway's intelligent analysis differentiates this volume from many books ... Read more