Flying the beam :: navigating the early US airmail airways, 1917-1941 /
"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 i...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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. 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"--Provided by publisher |
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| spelling | Lehrer, Henry R., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97017115 Flying the beam : navigating the early US airmail airways, 1917-1941 / Henry R. Lehrer. Navigating the early US airmail airways, 1917-1941 West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2014] 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Print version record. Frustrating beginnings (1917 -- 1919) -- "I follow roads, rivers, and rail lines" (1920 -- 1924) -- Lighted airways (1925 -- 1928) 636 -- Radio range and blind flying; almost a decade of monumental aeronautical growth (1929 -- 1936) -- Aviation reaches for maturity (1937 -- 1941) -- Epilogue. "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. 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"--Provided by publisher Includes bibliographical references and index. Air mail service United States History. Navigation (Aeronautics) United States History. Poste aérienne États-Unis Histoire. Navigation (Aéronautique) États-Unis Histoire. TRANSPORTATION Aviation History. bisacsh Air mail service fast Navigation (Aeronautics) fast United States fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq History fast has work: Flying the beam (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGtQBWtxQrwvvrY6wk67Vy https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Lehrer, Henry R. Flying the beam. West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2014] 9781557536853 (DLC) 2013042314 (OCoLC)854609734 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=812669 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Lehrer, Henry R. Flying the beam : navigating the early US airmail airways, 1917-1941 / Frustrating beginnings (1917 -- 1919) -- "I follow roads, rivers, and rail lines" (1920 -- 1924) -- Lighted airways (1925 -- 1928) 636 -- Radio range and blind flying; almost a decade of monumental aeronautical growth (1929 -- 1936) -- Aviation reaches for maturity (1937 -- 1941) -- Epilogue. Air mail service United States History. Navigation (Aeronautics) United States History. Poste aérienne États-Unis Histoire. Navigation (Aéronautique) États-Unis Histoire. TRANSPORTATION Aviation History. bisacsh Air mail service fast Navigation (Aeronautics) fast |
| title | Flying the beam : navigating the early US airmail airways, 1917-1941 / |
| title_alt | Navigating the early US airmail airways, 1917-1941 |
| title_auth | Flying the beam : navigating the early US airmail airways, 1917-1941 / |
| title_exact_search | Flying the beam : navigating the early US airmail airways, 1917-1941 / |
| title_full | Flying the beam : navigating the early US airmail airways, 1917-1941 / Henry R. Lehrer. |
| title_fullStr | Flying the beam : navigating the early US airmail airways, 1917-1941 / Henry R. Lehrer. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Flying the beam : navigating the early US airmail airways, 1917-1941 / Henry R. Lehrer. |
| title_short | Flying the beam : |
| title_sort | flying the beam navigating the early us airmail airways 1917 1941 |
| title_sub | navigating the early US airmail airways, 1917-1941 / |
| topic | Air mail service United States History. Navigation (Aeronautics) United States History. Poste aérienne États-Unis Histoire. Navigation (Aéronautique) États-Unis Histoire. TRANSPORTATION Aviation History. bisacsh Air mail service fast Navigation (Aeronautics) fast |
| topic_facet | Air mail service United States History. Navigation (Aeronautics) United States History. Poste aérienne États-Unis Histoire. Navigation (Aéronautique) États-Unis Histoire. TRANSPORTATION Aviation History. Air mail service Navigation (Aeronautics) United States History |
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