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Thanks Henry for the lead.

I have doe a little search on the net and there appears to be another book
called Avigation written by Harvey H. Holand and published in the very same
year - 1931 by McGraw-Hill. Competition at its best! Any knowledge of which
one is better? Price wise there is no ubtantial difference.

----- Original Message -----
From: Henry C. Halboth 
To: 
Sent: 26 March 2005 14:36
Subject: Re: Astro Navigation on Pan American Flying Clippers


> There is a book entitled "Avigation", authored by Bradley Jones, and
> published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, and Chapman & Hall, Ltd.,
> London, in 1931, that covers air navigation methods of that era in quite
> some detail, and covers all the celestial methods then in use, both
> surface and air.
>
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:23:51 -0000 Zvi Doron 
> writes:
> > I am looking for infrmation on the methods used by navigators on long
> > haul
> > civil flights in the 1930s and 40s. Several sources mention the Pan
> > American
> > Flying Clippers, to the extent that Pan Am staff trained US Army Air
> > Cor.
> > Navigators early in WWII.
> >
> > I wonder if there was a book written by any of their ex navigators
> > describing instruments, methods and experience gained. I have a book
> > called
> > Most Probable Position by Monte Duane Wright that covers some of it
> > but am
> > looking for more detail.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> >

   

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