Air Navigation

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McGraw-Hill book Company, Incorporated, 1931 - Navigation (Aeronautics) - 589 pages

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CHAPTER II
11
CHAPTER III
17
THE EARTH INDUCTOR AND OTHER COMPASSES
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Copyright

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accuracy accurate air speed aircraft airplane airport airway aviator azimuth beacon bearing bubble celestial avigation celestial sphere chart chronometer circle clouds compass course corr course and distance dead reckoning dead-reckoning position declination determined deviation diagram direction drift earth east equator error flying give given Greenwich civil Greenwich hour angle Greenwich sidereal ground speed heading heavenly body horizon indicator instrument isobars knots latitude light Line of Position local hour angle log sec longitude magnetic course marked Mercator Mercator chart meridian method moon Nautical Almanac nautical miles observed pilot plane plotter plotting pole Position Book practical radio reading right ascension scale sextant sheet shown in Fig shows signals solution Star Altitude Curves station steer tables tion track course triangle true course variation velocity vernal equinox vertical watch weather wind angle wind correction Wind Wind

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TitleAir Navigation
AuthorPhilip Van Horn Weems
PublisherMcGraw-Hill book Company, Incorporated, 1931
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedSep 26, 2007
Length589 pages
  
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