Air navigation from balloons to Concorde : selected essays from the archives of the Royal Institute of Navigation /edited by Walter Blanchard.

Selected essays from the archives of the Royal Institute of Navigation. Topics covered include: provenance of navigational science and air navigation; first flights, including airship navigation and early air navigation; the development of airborne dead-reckoning pre-and post-1940; aspects of flight planning in civil aviation; navigation systems and instrument aids; the S.A.S. Transarctic flights; history of inertial navigation; compasses and sextants; astronomical navigation; radio and navigation; development of the aircraft automatic radio compass; GPS in the year 2000 and beyond; air traffic control and landing systems; military navigation including radionavigation in the UK in World War Two and navigation in the Royal Air Force 1960-1980; weather and navigation including meteorology and aerial navigation and the jet stream.