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The Triumph of Instrument Flight: A Retrospective in the Century of U.S.
Aviation ISBN 0966625137; $18.95; 335 pages, 6x9 format. Indexed. From
the Wright Brothers and Glenn Curtiss to the speed/endurance records of the
1920s and early 1930s. These proved the airframes, the engines, and the
pilots.The technical breakthrough for instrument flying came in the 1920s,
but the pilot interface, putting the pilot in the 'loop,' took a bit
more time. The already famed Jimmy Doolittle made a "blind" flight out of
Mitchell Field, with a safety pilot aboard. Then, the Lockheed 10A Electra
and Boeing 214 instrument panels, with Elmer Sperry's gyro instruments,
introduced the essential cluster for instrument flying. Instrument-controlled
landings would come late in the 20th century.
Available from Amazon and from
Amazon.UK
Can be ordered from Barnes & Noble, and other retail bookstores.
Mention ISBN 0966625137
Notice: If you order this book, you owe it to yourself to obtain the free
short pamphlet, "Errata and Addenda." Every page on this website has a '"contact
author" link. The author will send you, free for the asking, this pamphlet.
Most of the pamphlet deals with two controversies on key aviation achievments,
and the author's opinion on them. Hurry. I am 90.
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