Jeppesen, a Biography by His Son

This is a behind the scenes, up close and personal story
of my dad, Elrey Borge Jeppesen, who quit high school and
barnstormed his way to fame. Not many of the early airmail
pilots lived, their plane wrecks are still scattered all over
America. Their fellow pilots learned from the mistakes.
From Jenny's to Jets and on into space, this was the era of
aviation my dad flew in.
There were no universities of flight then. There were
no aircraft construction standards. no regulations, no rules,
and no airports either. Nobody knew how much turbulence
an airplane could withstand and stay together. Nobody
knew whether a plane could do a loop or a spin without the
wings coming off. It was trial and error and to error was
to die. These pioneers, risked their lives so that those that
followed could learn from their mistakes. It was a deadly
business.
This is a story of a man that created the Jeppesen
Airway Manual. He was the one that first designed enroute
procedures, let down procedures, approach procedures, and
missed approach procedures. This is the man that gave his
fellow pilots a survival manual.