Research and Testing

Abstract

Equipment, Programmes, Techniques and Projects. EMI Electronics closed circuit television equipment is being installed in Concorde prototypes 001 and 002 aircraft for a variety of applications. The layout of the Concorde is such that it is impossible for the pilot to observe the position of the main and nose undercarriage relative to the runway from the cockpit. This presents a problem during taxying, to ease which, two EMI one‐inch vidicon camera heads are fitted to the nose wheel structure, outside the pressurised area, as standard equipment. One camera faces forward with a viewing angle of 90 deg. and one faces aft with a viewing angle of 65 deg. They are connected by means of a special camera cable to a camera control unit located in the aircraft equipment rack. The pictures, which are easily selected, are fed to a special 6 in. monitoring screen located by the captain's nose‐wheel steering control.

Citation

(1970), "Research and Testing", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 42 No. 1, pp. 36-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb034597