Editing Instrument landing system (section)

==History==
[[File:Bordpeilgerät Peil G 6.jpg|thumb|Luftwaffe AFN 2 indicator, built 1943]]

Tests of the ILS began in 1929 in the United States, with [[Jimmy Doolittle]] becoming the first pilot to take off, fly and land an airplane using [[Flight instruments|instruments]] alone, without a view outside the cockpit.<ref>{{Cite web |editor-last=Preston |editor-first=Edmund |title=FAA Historical Chronology: Civil Aviation and the Federal Government, 1926–1996 |url=https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/37596/dot_37596_DS1.pdf |access-date=5 October 2020 |website=Repository and Open Science Access Portal; National Transportation Library; United States Department of Transportation |publisher=United States Federal Aviation Administration |quote=Sep 24, 1929: At Mitchel Field, N.Y., Army Lt. James H. Doolittle became the first pilot to use only instrument guidance to take off, fly a set course, and land. Doolittle received directional guidance from a radio range course aligned with the airport runway, while radio marker beacons indicated his distance from the runway. [...] He flew in a hooded cockpit, but was accompanied by a check pilot who could have intervened in an emergency. |page=[https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/37596/dot_37596_DS1.pdf#page=9 9] }}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=u-IDAAAAMBAJ&dq=Popular+Mechanics+1931+curtiss&pg=PA205 "Planes Are Landing By Radio When Fog Hides The Field", February 1931, Popular Mechanics] bottom-right of page</ref> A basic system, fully operative, was introduced in 1932 at Berlin-[[Berlin Tempelhof Airport|Tempelhof Central Airport]] (Germany) named LFF or "[[Lorenz beam]]" after its inventor, the C. Lorenz AG company. The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) of the United States authorized installation of the system in 1941 at six locations. The first landing of a scheduled U.S. passenger airliner using ILS was on January 26, 1938, when a [[Capital Airlines (United States)|Pennsylvania Central Airlines]] [[Boeing 247]]D flew from Washington, D.C., to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and landed in a snowstorm using only the Instrument Landing System.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.centennialofflight.net/essay/Government_Role/landing_nav/POL14.htm |title=History of Aircraft Landing Aids |first=Roger |last=Mola |website=centennialofflight.net |access-date=28 September 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220013541/http://www.centennialofflight.net/essay/Government_Role/landing_nav/POL14.htm |archive-date=20 February 2014 }}</ref> The first fully [[Autoland|automatic landing]] by a commercial airliner using ILS occurred in March 1964 at [[RAE Bedford|Bedford Airport]] in the UK.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}