Aeronautical instruments
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Variants: Aeronautics—Instruments // Aircraft instruments // Airplanes — instruments // Instruments, Aeronautical.
BT: Electronic instruments
NT: Accelerometers // Air-speed indicators // Airplanes—cockpits—Warning Systems // Altimeters // Aneroid barometers // Artificial horizons (Aeronautical instruments) // Automatic pilot (Airplanes) // Automatic pilot (Helicopters) // Course-line computers // Density altitude computers // Distance measuring equipment (Aircraft to ground station) // Drift indicator // Flight engineering // Flight recorders // Ground-speed indicator // Guidance systems (Flight) // Inclinometer // Instrument flying // Kymograph // Navigation computer (Aeronautical instrument) // Omnirange system // Radio beacons // Radioisotopes in aeronautics // Rate gyroscopes // Rockets (Aeronautics)--Aspect recording systems // Stall warning indicators (Aeronautics) // Tacan
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Sub-series II.C: Aircraft Equipment
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Collection includes documents, 16mm film and 35mm film clips donated by AEHS Members, as well as 33 documents donated by George Martin and 100 documents donated by Saverio Morea. The AEHS collection includes subjects on aviation training, aircraft research and design publications, aircraft component service manuals, aircraft operating manuals, aircraft engines, reference books, standards and publications.
Dates:
1911 - 2013
The Airplane and Its Engine (Fourth Edition, Second Impression), 1940
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 086, Book: Catalog Number: TBD
Identifier: 20180015
Abstract
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION The wide use of the first three editions of the book, both by the general public and by schools and colleges, has indicated to the authors that their hope of meeting a definite need in aeronautical literature has been fulfilled. Like its predecessors, this edition is intended primarily for the reader who desires a sound knowledge of the basic principles and a broad view of the present development of the airplane and its power plant, without giving to the...
Dates:
Publication: 1940