Abstract
AS a practical manual of air navigation, this book can be thoroughly recommended. It describes the methods of navigation by pilotage, dead reckoning, radio position finding and celestial observation, with a comprehensive account of the instruments employed and of the various tables for facilitating the determination of position. It contains little in the way of mathematics and does not go at all deeply into the theory of the methods. The outlook is essentially practical rather than theoretical. An unusual feature in a work of this sort, but one of undoubted value for the air navigator, is an excellent outline of meteorology by Dr. Sverre Peterssen. The book contains a large number of figures, diagrams and illustrations of various instruments and forms a useful work of reference.
Air Navigation
British Empire edition, by Lieut.-Comdr. P. V. H. Weems. Revised and edited by Arthur J. Hughes and P. F. Everitt. Second edition. Pp. xxi + 519. (London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd.; New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1942.) 35s.
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J., H. Air Navigation. Nature 151, 572 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151572b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151572b0