Research Catalog

Title

Practical air navigation / by Thoburn C. Lyon.

Author

Lyon, Thoburn C. (Thoburn Cassady), 1896-1974

Publication

Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1940.

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Details

Description

ix, 245 pages including illustrations, tables, forms, charts (some folded), diagrams; 27 cm

Series Statement

U.S. Civil aeronautics administration. Civil aeronautics bulletin no. 24 Sept. 1940

Uniform Title

Civil aeronautics bulletin ; no. 24.

Subject

• Navigation (Aeronautics)
• Flugnavigation
• Flygutbildning > navigering
• Navigering
• Navigeringsutrustning > flygplan

Genre/Form

• aeronautical charts.
• Aeronautical charts
• Aeronautical charts.
• Cartes aéronautiques.

Note

• At head of title: United States Dept. of commerce, Civil aeronautics administration, Washington, D.C.
• "This publication supersedes U. S. Coast and geodetic survey Special publication no. 197, Practical air navigation and the use of the aeronautical charts of the U. S. Coast and geodetic survey, which has been discontinued."
• "Publications of the Civil aeronautics administration": p. 235-238.
• "Drift grid" etc. in pocket.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 238-239.

Contents

The problems of air navigation -- The Earth : its form, coordinates, and representation -- Instruments -- Chart reading -- Cross-country flying-piloting -- Air navigation by dead reckoning -- Radio navigation -- Air navigation computer : graphs and tables -- The practice of navigation -- Celestial navigation.

LCCN

41050029

OCLC

• ocm02024579
• 2024579
• SCSB-479963

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library