Civil Airports and Airways
Black, Archibald
"To the memory of those pilots whose lives were sacrificed to inadequate landing fields."
An overview on 1929 high-tech airport-design.
"This voIume has been compiled with the purpose of providing in convenient form a mass of Information on airports and airways design which has been accumulated in the past several years and which has been discussed, in part, by the author in numerous technical articles.
Almost as soon the work of preparing this book was started it became evident that a radical departure from customary text-book practice was desirable. Airports and airways include so many varied kinds of specialized knowledge that no one engineer can expect to properly cover the entire field. Hence the airport engineer, while having sonne knowledge of each of the specialized problems, must assume the position of coordinating the work of many others.
No effort was made, therefore, to prepare this book single-handed. Instead its author engaged the interest of a large group of men, - each a recognized specialist in his respective field of work. The entire volume was then prepared by working in close cooperation with these men. In the case of the airship and radio Chapters this policy was carried even further and the material prepared by en-gineers specializing in these fields."
Contents
Chapter l - Putting the City on the Airline
Chapter 2 - Selection of Airport Sites
Chapter 3 - Planning the Field Layout
Chapter 4 - Clearancc and Construction of Flying Fields
Chapter 5 - Drainage of Flying Fields
Chapter 6 - Airport Roads and Runways
Chapter 7 - Buildings for Airports
Chapter 8 - Airport Maintenance and Operating Equipment
Chapter 9 - Repair Shop Equipment for Airports
Chapter 10 - Fire Protection of Airports
Chapter 11 - Special Requirements of Seaplane Bases
Chapter 12 - Requirements of Airship and Balloon Stations
Chapter 13 - Airways Lighting Equipment
Chapter 14 - Radio Equipment for Airways
Chapter 15 - Airways Meteorology
Appendix
- Housing dimensions of airplanes
- maintenance, servicing and operating equipment
- airplane and engine repair equipment
- characteristics of fire extinguishers
- dictionary of airport and airways terms
- airport regulations of the U. S. Department of Commerce
- Rules, regulations, rates and charges, Oakland, Calif., Municipal Airport
Index
Hardcover
238 Seiten / pages
many photos and illustrations
ex library copy of "The Institution of Mechanical Engineers", good condition
New York - 1929 - Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company
Art.Nr. 11877
