Smith, Philip M.
Lt. JG Philip Dalton (1903-1941), USNR, inventor--aerial navigational computers & equipment, 2002 January 31.
Biography of Lt. Dalton, including Foreword by author; Summary of accomplishments and life history; lists of Awards and Education, Aerial Navigational Devices with photographs and figures, with photocopied articles on same; summary of correspondence and excerpts; photocopies of family photographs and clippings.
Physicist and Navy pilot; best known as inventor of the Dalton Dead Reckoning Computer Type E-6B, as well as other flight navigational aids. Killed on a training flight in 1941.
Aids to navigation.
Flight training.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations.
Air pilots. lcsh
Dalton Dead Reckoning Computer Type E-6B.
Dalton, Philip, 1903-1941.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA