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Blind Landings - Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918-1958 (Hardcover)
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Blind Landings - Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918-1958 (Hardcover)
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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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