Synopsis
The years 1921-31 saw U.S. aviation marking its first quarter century with record after record demonstrating the speed and reliability of aircraft and the developed skill of pilots who flew them. By 1929, the technology was greatly advanced beyond the fragile craft and the sputtering engine of the Wright Brothers. The ultimate tribute to them was the fact their aircraft, its engine and its controls proved to be the foundation for aviation. In 1932-35, technology and pilot skill breached weather's wall with the ability to fly instruments. A breakthrough flight control system, first demonstrated in 1929, had to be deconstructed to put the pilot into the knowledge loop. The result was a trio of pilot flight instruments that serve aviation to this day.
About the Author
Franklyn E. Dailey Jr. attended Niagara University. He then took employment at Eastman Kodak, first in its Tabulating Dept., then in the Billing Dept. In 1939 he received appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in June 1942. Dailey went to the destroyer, USS Edison. As Gunnery Officer in 1944, Lt. USN Dailey was ordered to the U.S. for flight training. He began at Ottumwa, Ia, then basic flight training at Pensacola, Fl. He received Navy wings in Oct. 1945. Before proceeding to Squadron VP-107 at NAS Whidbey Island Wa. in 1946, Dailey received training in PB4Y-2 Privateers at Hutchinson, Kan. and Whiting Field in Florida. Extensive Aleutian instrument flights were followed by two Naval PG School years at Annapolis (BSEE), and then the Westwood campus, UCal., for an MS Physics in 1951. LCdr Dailey then went to Squadron VX-2 at Chincoteague, VA. This was followed by Undersea Wpns duty at the Naval Ord.Lab. in Silver Spring, Md. Cmdr. Dailey resigned his regular Navy commission in 1956. He worked for Stromberg Carlson in Rochester NY, and commanded VP-852, a Naval Reserve squadron transitioning from PB4Y-2 aircraft to Lockheed P2V-6M at NAS Niagara Falls. He accepted a commission as Cdr. USNR and later was promoted to Capt. USNR. After retirement from active naval service he headed Stromberg's San Diego Eng. Ops' post, held senior technical positions with Ryan Aero.and a Scott Paper subsidiary in Massachusetts. In retirement, Dailey worked at McGraw Hill in New York City, and Coulter Systems in Bedford MA, and consulted for Fuji Photo. He established Dailey International Publishers, authoring a series of business/tech reports for Frost and Sullivan and Computer Tech. Research Corp. He and a partner established website daileyint.com in continuous operation since the mid 1990s. Three Amazon-available print books were then published, followed by Dailey's first e-book in Sept. 2012.
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