Genre: Aviation
Paperback: 178 pages

Description: High-quality goods with a story, Oldairfield.com is your purveyor of unusually fun gear and usually useful stuff from the Golden Age Age of Aviation!

Synopsis:

This book is a complement to the aviation history website known as www.dmairfield.org. The website celebrates the pilot transient Register from the Davis-Monthan Airfield, Tucson, AZ that lay open for pilots and passengers to sign between February 6, 1925 and November 26, 1936. Recorded in the Register are 3,689 landings by 1,962 unique pilots, flying 2,129 unique aircraft. They carried 2,061 unique passengers. The motivation for the book is TM 2170-35, Identification of Aircraft, issued originally in 1929. It is a training manual to help U.S. Army Air Corps personnel identify contemporary military aircraft. Twenty-eight of the 41 aircraft types illustrated in TM 2170-35 were flown to Tucson during the time of the Register. Further, 850 landings were made at Tucson by these aircraft and their gifted pilots.TM2170-35 is reproduced here in its entirety, including photographs of airplane types. Black & white images with technical captions are cold. But, add the people from the Register and an intimate parallel emerges between this book and the website. The book interweaves with the people of the Register and introduces us biographically to the pilots as unique human beings. It lists pilot names and dates of arrival at the Airfield. It lists the registration numbers for the aircraft, in the event you care to further research them. The tabulated information comes from the database that drives www.dmairfield.org. But, we feel warmer when we learn that it was the people who drove the technology, not the other way around.

Product Details:

· Paperback: 178 pages
· Binding: Perfect
· Publisher: G.W. Hyatt (May 2007)
· Product Number: 030-117492092