EditorialThe altimeter and other instruments in the cockpit of one of the two Cessna 414s that Love Cloud Vegas uses for its flights, at North Las Vegas Airport in Las Vegas, Jan. 15, 2022. (Roger Kisby/The New York Times)
EditorialCaptain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Mrs. Letitia Anne Sage, in a Balloon, John Francis Rigaud, 17421810, French, active in Britain (from 1771), 1785, Oil on copper, Support (PTG): 19 x 14 inches (48.3 x 35.6 cm), actress, alt...
Editorialaltimetry, Altimeter, copperplate engraving, pl. 1, p. 38 (vol. 1), 1746, Johann Jacob Scheuchzer, Joh. Georg Sulzern, Johann Jacob Scheuchzers ... Natur-Geschichte des Schweitzerlandes samt seinen Reisen ?ber die Schweitzerische Geb?rge. Z?rich: David...
EditorialQuid si citra omnem Solis & Lunae umbram ... altitudines ex Solis ex Solis pnnacidijs colligere voles?, Altimeter of a tower with a sun quadrant, Fig. 8, p. 35, 1533, Petrus Apian: Horoscopion Apiani generale dignoscendis horis cuiusqumque generis apti...