Dials and Flight

vi, 359 pp. In four parts--Flight Instruments, Engine Instruments, Navigation Instruments, and Automatic Pilots--Dials and Flight deals with each instrument in a separate chapter, which tells the purposes of the instrument, describes it and its operation, tells its location in the aircraft, tells how it is used, and gives servicing instructions. This information is given not only for the panel unit, but also for all related items such as tubing and mechanical or electrical linkages. The book is profusely illustrated with seventy-two full page half-tones, two hundred line drawings, diagrams and charts...