Alaska Flight Planning Map
"A very scarce original pictorial flight planning map for Alaska bush pilots complete with point-to-point routes, radio frequency and call sign for each airport. Compiled and Drawn by Eric Lee and George Crowe. Not in WorldCat or elsewhere online. The area outside the route planning map is fill...
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ftdavidrumseyc:oai:N/A:RUMSEY~8~1~351209~90118699 2024-09-15T18:07:32+00:00 Alaska Flight Planning Map Lee, Eric Crowe, George Alaska 1969 Full Image Download in JP2 Format 42 56 https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~351209~90118699 https://media.davidrumsey.com/MediaManager/srvr?mediafile=/Size4/RUMSEY~8~1/205/15556001.jpg unknown Plan-a-Flight Pub 15556.000 https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~351209~90118699 https://media.davidrumsey.com/MediaManager/srvr?mediafile=/Size4/RUMSEY~8~1/205/15556001.jpg 15556.001 Airports Pictorial map Separate Map 1969 ftdavidrumseyc 2024-08-09T09:16:31Z "A very scarce original pictorial flight planning map for Alaska bush pilots complete with point-to-point routes, radio frequency and call sign for each airport. Compiled and Drawn by Eric Lee and George Crowe. Not in WorldCat or elsewhere online. The area outside the route planning map is filled with sketches of aircraft and notes about early Alaskan bush pilots who flew them and their achievements in Alaska aviation history. Lockheed Vega - Wilkins and Eielson - First trans-polar flight - 1928 Fairchild - "Glacier Pilot" Bob Reeves de Haviland - Ben Eielson - First airmail flight in Alaska - 1924 Cessna 180 Piper Super Club "Jenny" - First flight- Fairbanks - 1923 Standard (Hisso Powered) - Noel Wain- first to cross the Arctic Circle and land on the north side of Alaska - 1925 This "Alaska Flight Planning Map" was published in 1969 by Plan-a-Flight Publishing. In 1968 Plan-a-Flight published a book- "Plan-a-Flight to Alaska- a complete flight guide book to the Alaska Highway." with a fold-out sequence map of airports and emergency airstrips along the Alaska Highway route. There are several institutions that hold the Plan-a-Flight guide book, while no holdings of this Alaska Flight Planning Map are found anywhere on the Internet. Verso with a suggested survival equipment list, organized by season; mountain flying rules; and more than three dozen airport diagrams." (Chuck Ashman, 2023) Map glacier Alaska David Rumsey Historical Map Collection (Cartography Associates) |
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"A very scarce original pictorial flight planning map for Alaska bush pilots complete with point-to-point routes, radio frequency and call sign for each airport. Compiled and Drawn by Eric Lee and George Crowe. Not in WorldCat or elsewhere online. The area outside the route planning map is filled with sketches of aircraft and notes about early Alaskan bush pilots who flew them and their achievements in Alaska aviation history. Lockheed Vega - Wilkins and Eielson - First trans-polar flight - 1928 Fairchild - "Glacier Pilot" Bob Reeves de Haviland - Ben Eielson - First airmail flight in Alaska - 1924 Cessna 180 Piper Super Club "Jenny" - First flight- Fairbanks - 1923 Standard (Hisso Powered) - Noel Wain- first to cross the Arctic Circle and land on the north side of Alaska - 1925 This "Alaska Flight Planning Map" was published in 1969 by Plan-a-Flight Publishing. In 1968 Plan-a-Flight published a book- "Plan-a-Flight to Alaska- a complete flight guide book to the Alaska Highway." with a fold-out sequence map of airports and emergency airstrips along the Alaska Highway route. There are several institutions that hold the Plan-a-Flight guide book, while no holdings of this Alaska Flight Planning Map are found anywhere on the Internet. Verso with a suggested survival equipment list, organized by season; mountain flying rules; and more than three dozen airport diagrams." (Chuck Ashman, 2023) |
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Plan-a-Flight Pub |
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