Failings of system used in carrier landings operation, namely Batsman-Pilot combination, is examined; principles and description of mirror landing sight, used by both Royal Navy and US Navy; its application to aircraft carrier; system provides accurate glide slope in space which can be set up to accommodate all types of aircraft; it further shows pilot sense of any error in glide slope; magnitude of his error, and indication of rate at which he is departing from, or returning to, correct glide path.
Deck landing
Roy Aeronautical Soc -- J
Royal Aeronautical Society -- Journal ; 64 , n 593
1960
4 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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