ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Dr. Kayton wishes to acknowledge Clarence Asche of Honeywell for photos of inertial instruments, Anthony Bommarito of Wilcox for information about ILS and MLS landing aids, Phil Bruner and Wayne Knitter of Litton Industries for storage of magnetic models in guidance computers, Dennis Cooper, FAA representative in Moscow, for information about Russian air traffic control. Walter Fried for his contributions to Chapters 1, 2, and 9, Professors Frank von Graas and Per Enge for information about GPS landing aids, Dr. James Huddle of Litton Guidance and Control for information about mechanization techniques, Dr. David Y. Hsu of Litton Guidance and Control for using his software to calculate CEPs, the International Civil Aviation Organization for information about worldwide airspace regulations, Jeppesen-Sanderson for information about digital aeronautical maps, Dr. Robert Kelly, formerly of Bendix Communications for the definition of airways based on required navigation performance, Bob Knutson of Honeywell for information about air data, Dan Martinec of ARINC for publications, Harold Moses of RTCA for specifications, Bill Murray and Erv Ulbrich of McDonnell-Douglas for drawings, Norman Peddie and John Quinn of USGS for information about magnetic models, Walter Schoppe for information about naval communication links, and David Scull for various government documents.

Dr. Kayton included Willis Wing as a co-author of Chapter 9 because so much of his first edition material was reused, though Mr. Wing did not directly participate in the second edition.

Mr. Walter Fried wishes to thank Gregory Soloway of GEC Marconi Electronic Systems Corporation for information on JTIDS terminals.

Dr. Edward Knobbe and Dr. Gerald Haas wish to acknowledge that most of Sections 12.4.2 and 12.4.3, including Figure 12.7 and Tables 12.2 and 12.3, were written by Glenn Quasius for the first edition.

Dr. Clyde Miller wishes to thank Gene Wong and J. C. Johns of the FAA and Capt. Colin Miller of the U.S. Air Force for providing reference materials and for reviewing various sections of Chapter 14. Chapter 14 does not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. government.

Dr. Jack Pearson wishes to acknowledge the use of some of Carl Wiley's (deceased) material from the first edition.

Dr. Bahar Uttam wishes to acknowledge the use of Sven Dodington's Sections 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4 from the first edition.

Dr. A. J. Van Dierendonck wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Dr. R. Grover Brown on Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring, Ed Martin on the GPS spacecraft, and Jack Klobuchar on ionospheric effects on satellite navigation.

Mr. Doug Vickers wishes to thank Robert J. Bleeg of Boeing Commercial Airplane Division and Steve Osder for reviewing the flight-control sections of Chapter 13.

Dr. William Waters wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Robert Wigginton of the U.S. Naval Electronic Systems Engineering Activity in Section 13.8.

Mr. Edgar Westbrook wishes to thank Mr. Wayne Altrichter of GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems Corp. for his review of Section 6.2. He wishes to recognize Mr. Robert C. Snodgrass of the MITRE Corporation (retired) for his many contributions to the development of JTIDS RelNav.

The cover photograph is courtesy of Rockwell.

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