Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-qs9v7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-12T16:16:48.395Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Navigational Systems and Instrument Aids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

D. E. Adams  and
A. M. Uttley
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

To the aircraft designer and contractor, those of us responsible for equipment may appear as arch-perpetrators of complex, bulky and weighty “ gadgets,” impossible to install and the source of all unsightly excrescences on the aircraft's skin.

Any aircraft, from its inception should be designed for some specific role, and its usefulness may well depend upon the availability or simultaneous development of equipment.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 54 , Issue 473 , May 1950 , pp. 269 - 293
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1950

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

References

1. Pritchard, H. C. The Problems of Blind Landing. JOURNAL of The Royal Aeronautical Society. December 1946.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2. Durst, C. S., and Davis, N. E. Jet Streams and their Importance to Air Navigation. Journal of the institute of Navigation. July 1949.Google Scholar
3. Gross, F. J. The Course-Line Computer for ” Radio Navigation of Aircraft. Proc. of the I.R.E. July 1949.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
4. Decca Developments. The Aeroplane. 3rd June 1949.Google Scholar
5. Meredith, F. W. The Modern Autopilot. Journal of The Royal Aeronautical Society. May 1949.Google Scholar

General Bibliography

1. Radio Aids to Navigation, Smith, R. A., C.U.P. Google Scholar
2. Suppressed Radar Aircraft Aerials, Cary, R. H. J., T.R.E., Journal, April 1949.Google Scholar
3. Recent Developments of Aircraft Communications Aerials, Johnson, W. A., J.I.E.E., Vol 94, Pt IIIa, No. 13, 1947.Google Scholar
4. Loran, Pierce, J. A., McKenzie, A. A., Woodward, R. A., McGraw-Hill.Google Scholar
5. Radio Aids to Navigation, Hall, John N., McGraw-Hill.Google Scholar