Blind Landings
Title | Blind Landings PDF eBook |
Author | Erik M. Conway |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2006-11-04 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0801884497 |
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.
Blind Landings
Title | Blind Landings PDF eBook |
Author | Erik M. Conway |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Airplanes |
ISBN | 9781421427911 |
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.
Blind landing of airplanes
Title | Blind landing of airplanes PDF eBook |
Author | C. Lorenz A.G |
Publisher | |
Pages | 6 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Blind Landings
Title | Blind Landings PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Meade Conway |
Publisher | |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Instrument landing systems |
ISBN |
Blind Flight in Theory and Practice
Title | Blind Flight in Theory and Practice PDF eBook |
Author | William C Ocker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1934 |
Genre | Aeronautical instruments |
ISBN |
A Flight Study of Manual Blind Landing Performance Using Closed Circuit Television Displays
Title | A Flight Study of Manual Blind Landing Performance Using Closed Circuit Television Displays PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard R. Kibort |
Publisher | |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Airplanes |
ISBN |
Methods for Facilitating the Blind Landing of Airplanes
Title | Methods for Facilitating the Blind Landing of Airplanes PDF eBook |
Author | M. Heinrich Gloeckner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 23 |
Release | 1932 |
Genre | Airplanes |
ISBN |
Since the introduction of blind flying, the accomplishment of blind landing on prepared fields has become one of the most pressing problems, and many attempts are being made to solve it. The methods employed, in so far as they have been published, are summarized in this report.