 CAPT.
JEPP AND THE LITTLE
BLACK BOOK:
How Barnstormer and Aviation Pioneer Elrey B.
Jeppesen Made the Skies Safer for Everyone
by
Flint Whitlock and Terry L. Barnhart
Foreword
by Eric Lindbergh
Cable
Publishing Inc. (January
2007)
Hardcover:
$24.95
ISBN 13: 978-1-934980-42-2
ISBN 10: 1-934980-42-0
Soft
cover: $17.95
ISBN
13: 978-1-934980-43-9
ISBN
10: 1-934980-43-9
SYNOPSIS:
Aviation
pioneers such as Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, John
Glenn, and Chuck Yeager are well known among the general
public, but the name Elrey Jeppesen, AKA “Capt. Jepp,”
is familiar only to pilots and those in the aviation community.
This book is out to change Capt. Jepp's anonymity.
Capt.
Jepp began his flying career as a teenager in Oregon in
the
“Roaring 20s,” flying war-surplus Jennies as
an instructor, stunt pilot, and barnstormer. He then became
an aerial photography pilot in Mexico, an air-mail pilot,
and a pilot for the fledgling United Air Lines in the 1930s.
But
his real claim to fame is the system of aerial navigation
he devised. Jotting down notes about every airfield into
which he flew, he found scores of other pilots wanting
his notes—and were willing to pay $10 for them. A
sideline business sprang up in his basement—until
the demands for his notebook (the “little black book”)
became so overwhelming (and profitable) that he was forced
to give up his first love—flying.
“I
didn't invent aerial navigation to make money,” he
said.
“I did it to keep myself alive.”
Eventually
the company he founded became a multi-million-dollar international
enterprise, and today Jeppesen navigation products are
used by virtually every pilot and every airline in the
world. So important did he become that, in 1990, he was
inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame and, in
1995, the main terminal of the new Denver International
Airport was named in his honor.
Capt.
Jepp and the Little Black Book is a fascinating
look at the early days of flying and the life of this
formerly unsung hero of the skies. A “must-read” for
every aviation buff.
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INFORMATION:
Cable
Publishing Inc. (January 2007)
Hardcover:
$24.95
ISBN 13: 978-1-934980-42-2
ISBN 10: 1-934980-42-0
Soft
cover: $17.95
ISBN
13: 978-1-934980-43-9
ISBN
10: 1-934980-43-9
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