Blind Landings: Low-visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918-1958 - Couverture rigide

Conway, Erik M.

 
9780801884498: Blind Landings: Low-visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918-1958
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ISBN 10 : 0801884497 ISBN 13 : 9780801884498
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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 Radiation Lab's radar-based Ground Controlled Approach system, Conway interweaves technological change, training innovation, and pilots' experiences to examine the evolution of blind landing technologies. He shows how systems originally intended to produce routine, all-weather blind landings gradually developed into routine instrument-guided approaches. Even so, after two decades of development and experience, pilots still did not want to place the most critical phase of flight, the landing, entirely in technology's invisible hand. 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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Erik M. Conway serves as historian, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801884497
ISBN 13 
9780801884498
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
Buchpark GmbH
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