Details of novel navigational equipment which has been built into airframe of supersonic transport; at heart of equipment are two inertial platforms and general-purpose computer with its associated control panel; inertial platform provides vertical references for flight instruments, autopilot and weather radar; there are two sets of equipment in Concorde and they will supply navigational outputs to moving chart display which consists of small film projector showing required route on screen; problems which display solves are indicated; system will be evaluated in two prototype aircraft and its accuracy assessed in early flight testing from Toulouse and Filton.
Navigating concorde
Flight
Flight ; 89 , n 2987 ; p 977-978
1966
2 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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