"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:w4X0f.213977$084.171985@attbi_s22...

Steven, can you recommend a good "History of the Airways" book that covers
all this kind of stuff?


"Air Traffic Control" by Glen A. Gilbert, published in 1945. Glen Gilbert
is known as "The Father of Air Traffic Control", he developed most of the
early procedures. He was the first manager of the Chicago Airway Traffic
Control Center. He wrote another book in 1973, "Air Traffic Control: The
Uncrowded Sky".


DOT had published a series of books on the history of civil aviation policy:

"Bonfires to Beacons: Federal Civil Aviation Policy Under the Air Commerce
Act, 1926-1938", by Nick A. Komons, 1978.

"Turbulence Aloft: The Civil Aeronautics Administration Amid Wars and
Rumors of Wars, 1938-1953", by John R. M. Wilson, 1979.

"Takeoff at Mid-Century: Federal Civil Aviation Policy in the Eisenhower
Years, 1953-1961, by Stuart I. Rochester, 1976.

"Safe, Separated, and Soaring: A History of Federal Civil Aviation Policy,
1961-1972, by Richard J. Kent, Jr., 1980.

"Troubled Passage: The Federal Aviation Administration During the
Nixon-Ford Term, 1973-1977, by Edmund Preston, 1987.