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Air Navigation 1940


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Product No: 1019
Product Type Publication
ISBN: 9781847918437
Author: Air Ministry
Publisher: Air Ministry
First Edition Published: 1940
Original form and quality: Printed book - clean
Published: 2009
Pages: 380
Photos: 50
Illustrations: 150
Indexed: Yes

Book Description

"Air navigation is the art of conducting an aircraft from place to place by dead reckoning and fixing position by observations of terrestrial objects and celestial bodies." The first sentence in the book, which does not take account of weather, cloud, darkness or the opposition, but the bomber was always going to get through anyway! This is the state of that art in 1940, and the book is best read in conjunction with the later 1944 manual which is much more professional, although this book is very comprehensive and is of course valid today if you have the many instruments illustrated in the text.

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"Air navigation is the art of conducting an aircraft from place to place by dead reckoning and fixing position by observations of terrestrial ...