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Instrument Landing Scrapbook

by Chester B. Watts, Jr.

392 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); illustrated; catalogue #04-2287; ISBN 1-4120-4479-0; US$30.00, C$34.00, EUR24.50, £17.50

A collection of papers, scraps, clippings, and many photos along with comments by the author. It is a virtual history of the development of Instrument Landing in the United States.

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About the Book

The book deals with the origins and development of Instrument Landing as seen by the author from 1940 to the present time. The cover shows a portion of the front main antenna of the first production Model 105 End Fire Glide Slope installation at Charlotte, NC. United Air Lines, in the 1940's, supplied a retired Boeing 247D transport, with pilot, to the Aircraft Radio Laboratory, Wright Field, for many of the early tests and demonstrations of Instrument Landing as well as automatic landing or coupled approach. The CAA Experimental Station at Indianapolis had a similar Boeing 247D . A third 247 was shipped to England for use by the RAF Blind Landing Experimental Unit at Defford. In all three aircraft, the hydraulic autopilot had been replaced by Honewell Type C-1 electric autopilot with coupling unit, connected to the ILS crosspointer signals. The book is divided into decades, continuing in a simiolar way to the present time.

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About the Author

The author was born in 1918 in Washington, DC, spent his childhood at the U. S. Naval Observatory, attended Western High School, was then sent off to Indiana University. After two years in Bloomington, he was able to tranfer to Mass. Inst. of Tech. in Cambridge, MA. After graduating in 1940, he was very fortunate, in the fall of that year to get a job with ITT, Federal Telegragh Co. in Newark, NJ, where his first assignment involved work on the mechanical modulator for the first UHF glide path. He has continued to work on various components of ILS to the present time.

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