navigation charts
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Maps designed and used primarily for plotting courses and traveling on water in a ship or other vessel or in an aircraft or spacecraft. It is sometimes used also for maps specifically designed and used for traveling with motor vehicles.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Gene M. Allred Air-Navigation Workbook
Collection — Box Assorted oversize box 25, oversize: folder 1
Identifier: 2022-00-00-105
Content Description
The Gene M. Allred Air-Navigation Workbook is a small collection consisting of a single item: the Air-navigation workbook: pre-flight--primary training manual used by Allred at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School, at St. May's College in California in 1943. The workbook was published by the Aviation Training Division, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air) U.S. Navy and consists of position plotting sheets, sheets of graph paper, logs, and a star finder and...
Dates:
1943
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Elrey B. Jeppesen Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1996-11-26
Abstract
The Elrey B. Jeppesen Papers documents the career and personal life of aviator and aerial navigation pioneer Elrey B. Jeppesen. This collection is comprised of textual, visual, and audiovisual materials created and collected by EBJ and his wife and business partner, Nadine Audrey (Liscomb) Jeppesen. The documents date from 1843-1996, with the bulk of the material dating from 1940-1979.
Dates:
1843-1996 ; Majority of material found within 1940-1979
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Frank C. Leigh World War II Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2012-02-09
Overview
The collection contains items relating to Frank C. Leigh's time serving with the United States Navy as a signalman, specifically on the USS Chenango during World War II.
Dates:
1942-1946
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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