This citation summarizes a one-page announcement of technology available for utilization. A system for determining the potential location and severity of clear-air turbulence is based on a passive microwave sensor. Mounted on the side of an airplane, for example, such a system could allow a pilot to evade clear-air turbulence. The sensor would permit safer, more comfortable flights for commercial airplanes and would enable safer inflight refueling for military airplanes. Flight evaluation with prototype hardware shows the concept to be workable. ...FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Contact: Tech. Transfer Div., P.O. Box 8757, BWI Airport, MD 21240; (301) 621-0100. Refer to: NPO-15251/TN.
Searching for Clear-Air Turbulence: An airborne microwave system would locate the tropopause to assist in the avoidance of clear-air turbulence
1984
1 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch