Investigation shows that airspeed could be maintained satisfactorily with automatic system described; turbulent air caused undesirably large variations of engine power; nevertheless, pilot felt that he could make approaches 5 knots slower with equal assurance when automatic control was in operation.
Flight investigation of automatic throttle control in landing approaches
NASA -- Memo
1959
8 pages
Report
English
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