Main entry:

Wood, John Walter, 1900-1958.

Title & Author:

Airports, some elements of design and future development [by] John Walter Wood.

Publication:

New York, Coward-McCann Inc. [©1940]

Description:

xv, 364 pages illustrations (including maps, plans) diagrams 29 x 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 351).
Introduction -- Part I: The requirements of the airport -- Part II: Forty-eight airports from North and South America and Europe compared -- North and South American airports -- Brazil -- Rio De Janeiro -- Santos-Dumont airport -- Canada -- Montreal -- St. Hubert airport -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- Central airport -- United States -- Dayton -- Wright field (1904-1905) -- Boston -- Boston municipal airport -- Buffalo -- Buffalo municipal airport -- Chicago -- Chicago municipal airport -- Cleveland -- Cleveland municipal airport -- Columbus -- Port Columbus airport -- Detroit -- Detroit City municipal airport -- Detroit -- Wayne County airport -- El Paso -- El Paso airport -- Los Angeles -- Union air terminal airport -- Miami -- Dinner Key airport -- Newark -- Newark municipal airport -- New Orleans -- New Orleans municipal airport -- New York -- La Guardia Field municipal airport -- New York -- Floyd Bennett municipal airport -- Oakland -- Oakland municipal airport -- Pittsburgh -- Allegheny County municipal airport -- Washington -- Washington national airport -- Washington -- Washington-Hoover airport -- European airports -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- Deurne airport -- Brussels -- Evere airport -- Czechoslovakia -- Prague -- Ruzynĕ airport -- Denmark -- Copenhagen -- Kastrup airport -- England -- London -- Croydon airport -- London -- Gatwick airport -- France -- Bordeaux -- Biscarrosse airport -- Bordeaux -- Biscarrosse airport -- Lyon -- Bron airport -- Marseille -- Marignane airport -- Paris -- Le Bourget airport -- Germany -- Berlin -- Tempelhof airport -- Halle and Leipzig -- Halle-Leipzig airport -- Hamburg -- Fuhlsbüttel airport -- Lübeck -- Travemünde airport -- Munich -- Oberwiesenfeld airport -- Stuttgart -- Böblingen airport -- Holland -- Amsterdam -- Schiphol airport.
Italy -- Milan -- Linate airport -- Rome -- Littorio airport -- Venice -- San Niccolo del Lido airport -- Spain -- Madrid -- Barajas airport -- Sweden -- Malmö -- Bulltofta airport -- Stockholm -- Bromma airport -- Switzerland -- Zürich -- Dübendorf airport -- U.S.S.R. -- Moscow -- Moscow airport -- Part III: A traffic-control airport-expansion plan. (A proposed layout for commercial airports.) -- Appendixes -- Appendix I. Aviation statistics -- Airport design -- Appendix 2. Airport size -- Appendix 3. Runaways -- Appendix 4. Airport drainage -- Appendix 5. Airport lighting -- Appendix 6. Airport traffic circulation -- Appendix 7. Airport zoning -- Appendix 8. Seaplane bases -- Appendix 9. Flight strips -- Appendix 10. Lateral plane-conveyor -- Appendix 11. Airport buildings -- Appendix 12. Airports and war -- Aviation aids -- Appendix 13. Airports and the civil aeronautics board -- Appendix 14. Airport traffic control -- Appendix 15. Aircraft instrument-landing system -- Appendix 16. Assisted take-off -- Appendix 17. Aviation weather reports -- Appendix 18. Aerial photography -- Miscellaneous -- Appendix 19. Auxiliary revenue -- Appendix 20. Airports and the WPA -- Appendix 21. Airports and the PWA -- Appendix 22. Index and captions to aviation drawings.

Subject:

Airports.
Airports Planning.
Aéroports.
Aéroports Planification.
airports.

Form/genre:

Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 2854
Call No.: PO7168; ID:87-B11643
Status: Available