Description: THIS IS THE SEVENTH EDITION.THE FIRST EDITION OF PRACTICAL AIR NAVIGATION WAS ISSUED IN 1935 AS A 60 PAGE SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF THE COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.AFTER THREE EDITIONS AS A C & GS PUBLICATION, IN 1940 IT WAS ISSUED AS A CIVIL AERONAUTICS BULLETIN NO 24, AND BECAME THE OFFICIAL NAVIGATION MANUAL OF THE CIVIL PILOT TRAINING PROGRAM AND OF THE WAR TRAINING SERVICE. BY 1944 MORE THAN 1,000,000 COPIES HAD BEEN ISSUED TO THE SERICES OR SOLD TO THE PUBLIC. A FIFTH EDITYION REACH THE PUBLIC IN JANUARY 1946. THIS WAS THE LAST GOVERNMENT EDITION.HAVING RESIGNED FROM MY POSITION AS CHIEF CARTOGRAPHIC ENGINEER IN THE AERONAUTICAL CHART BRANCH OF THE COASTY AND GEODETIC SURVEY, A COMPLETELY REVISED COMMERCIAL EDITION (THE SIXTH) WAS ISSUED EARLY IN 1948. APPROXIMATELY 30,000 COPIES OF THE COMMERCIAL EDITION HAVE BEEN SOLD TO DATE (1955).THE SEVENTH EDITION AGAIN REPRESENTS A COMPLETE AND THOROUGH REVISION OF THE ENTIRE TEXT. MUCH THAT HAD BECOME OBSOLETE HAS BEEN DELETED, AND MUCH THAT IS NEW AND IMPORTANT HAS BEEN ADDED. EVERY EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE TO PRODUCE A TEXT THAT IS AS COMPLETE AS NECESSARY, AND A BRIEF AND CONCISE AS POSSIBLE.
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Book Title: PRACTICAL AIR NAVIGATION
Book Series: Historical
Original Language: English
Item Length: 22 CM
Vintage: No
Format: Paperback
Unit Type: Unit
Language: English
Item Height: 2 CM
Personalized: No
Features: Illustrated
Topic: Aircraft
Unit Quantity: 1
Item Width: 14 CM
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: GUTHRIE LITHOGRAPH CO. LTD.
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: SEVENTH EDITION
Publication Year: 1955
Type: MANUAL
Literary Movement: Modernism
Era: 1950s
Author: THOBURN C. LYON
Genre: Aviation
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 612 G
Number of Pages: 407
