Elrey B. Jeppesen

	ELREY B. JEPPESEN Creator of the Jeppesen Airway Manual
	Captain Elrey B. Jeppesen earned has pilot's license at age twenty and by the early 1930's was employed as a pilot with airlines which ultimately merged to form United Airlines. Captain Jeppesen soon realized if he was to survive as an airling pilot, better aids to navigation were required other than the road maps and railroad tracks then in common use. As a result he began collecting pertinent navigation data such as airport elevations, obstacles and minimum safe altitude on the routes he flew, and entering this data in a small black note book. Other pilots soon learned of his "little black book" and began asking for copies and also contributing data on their own routes. This was to become the basis of the Jeppesen Airway Manuals which today are widely used by airlines as well as military and general aviation pilots throughout the world. Captain Jeppesen's thoughtful pioneering work has provided an inestimable contribution to the advancement of safety, regularity and economy of air operations for more than 50 years.
	Elected to the International Aerospace Hall of Fame 1995