System which uses airborne receiving equipment to provide pilot with vertical guidance to touchdown on airport runway; 5 flush mounted runway antennas are used to radiate UHF glide-path signal from precision destination of aircraft; basic theory for end fire, transverse electric, traveling wave, dielectric filled antenna is given, and results of scale model measurements made at X-band frequencies; results obtained with models operating near 332 Mc; glide-path system was established at Ohio State Univ Airport, and over 90 hr of flight data were obtained.
Airport glide-path system
Ohio State Univ -- Eng Experiment Station -- Bul
1962
103 pages
Report
Englisch
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Approach-light piers mark glide path at Idlewild airport
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