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  title info:
    title: Flying the beam
    sub title: navigating the early US airmail airways, 1917-1941
  name:
    name part: Lehrer, Henry R.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: inu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 219 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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 United States 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Henry R. Lehrer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Air mail service
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Navigation (Aeronautics)
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  classification: HE6496 .L44 2014
  classification: 383/.144097309041
  identifier: 9781557536853 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1557536856 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781612493404 (epdf)
  identifier: 1612493408 (epdf)
  identifier: 9781612493398 (epub)
  identifier: 1612493394 (epub)
  identifier: 2013042314
  record info:
    record content source: PSt/DLC
    record creation date: 140506
    record change date: 20151206102537.0
    record identifier: in00003484406