British consultant attributes European lead to economic pressures due to more severe weather and denser traffic; description of British Auto-Land system, which had over 10,000 fully automatic landings before end of 1962 and is about to become operative, and of new Lear-Siegler system, which has been recording successful landings in France at rate of over 6 per day since mid-1962; for VTOL guidance. Royal Aircraft Establishment (which also developed Auto-Land) has proposed using 2 interferometer antenna pairs to determine aircraft position in conjunction with identification beacon carried by aircraft; improvements in passive reflectors and magnetrons.


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    Title :

    Why U. S. lags Europe in automatic landing


    Additional title:

    Electronics


    Contributors:
    Young, R.E. (author)

    Published in:

    Electronics ; 36 , n 34


    Publication date :

    1963


    Size :

    6 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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