Light Aircraft Navigation

• Published in: Journal of Navigation
• Main Author: Townsend, Michael
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1951
• Subjects: Ocean Engineering; Oceanography; Pacific; North Atlantic; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300032963; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0373463300032963

This paper is an appreciation of the navigational problems encountered during a flight round the world in 1948, in a single-engined light aircraft. The route chosen (Fig. 2) covered nearly every type of flying weather in the world, from the perfect conditions of the Mediterranean in the summer to the severe climate of the Aleutian islands; navigation tests were provided by the overwater flights across the South China Sea (Hong Kong—Okinawa = 900 miles), the North Pacific (Chitose—Shemya = 1730 miles) and the North Atlantic.