Avionics
Much more than just charts, Jeppesen delivers the weather
Back in the early 1930s, when Capt.

Back in the early 1930s, when Capt. Elrey Jeppesen first started delivering airmail to remote towns and cities in the Western U.S. in single-engine Boeing biplanes, aviation most assuredly leaned more toward art than science.

For early airmail pilots, getting a weather report usually meant making a few telephone calls to local sheriffs and farmers along the route. And “trip planning” involved little more than performing a quick walkaround, topping the fuel and, in Jeppesen’s case, making sure he had his little black notebook containing the various snippets of navigation and terrain information he had collected and written down in ink.