LEADER 02403nam 2200337z- 450 001 9910583578403321 005 20220715 010 $a1-4214-2791-5 035 $a(CKB)5460000000023650 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88742 035 $a(oapen)doab88742 035 $a(EXLCZ)995460000000023650 100 $a20202207d2006 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aBlind Landings$eLow-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918-1958 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 330 $aWhen 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. 517 $aBlind Landings 606 $aHistory of engineering and technology$2bicssc 610 $aHistory of engineering & technology 615 7$aHistory of engineering and technology 700 $aConway$b Erik M$4auth$0927110 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910583578403321 996 $aBlind Landings$92777504 997 $aUNINA