Part Three—Flight Control System: Description of the Smiths Duplex System Designed to Carry Out ‘Autoflare’ as Well as a Range of Flight Director and Autopilot Control Modes
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology
ISSN: 0002-2667
Article publication date: 1 January 1962
Abstract
AT the present day the operations of civil transport aeroplanes are severely restricted under conditions of poor visibility and not infrequently flights have to be diverted or cancelled. The work of the Blind Landing Experimental Unit of the Ministry of Aviation in the development of a system of automatic landing for military aircraft has been described elsewhere.1 A flight control system is described in this paper, which given the necessary azimuth guidance signals from ground based installations, will extend the advantages of automatic landings into the civil field.
Citation
Fearnside, K. (1962), "Part Three—Flight Control System: Description of the Smiths Duplex System Designed to Carry Out ‘Autoflare’ as Well as a Range of Flight Director and Autopilot Control Modes", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 34 No. 1, pp. 12-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb033507
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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