Accession Number:

AD0701641

Title:

USE OF A FLYING LABORATORY COMET AIRCRAFT FOR NAVIGATION AND RADIO EQUIPMENT TRIALS,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

AEROPLANE AND ARMAMENT EXPERIMENTAL ESTABLISHMENT BOSCOMBE DOWN (ENGLAND)

Personal Author(s):

• Dyer,G. C.

Report Date:

1968-12-10

Pagination or Media Count:

28.0

Abstract:

A permanently instrumented Comet 4C aircraft is operated exclusively for flight testing of new avionic equipment. This report describes the facilities offered by this flying laboratory emphasis is placed on the digital trials methods appropriate to the testing of inertial navigation systems. The functions provided by a micro-miniature GEC G719 digital computer in real-time processing of information from various datum sensors, and producing, in-flight, records of test equipment errors is described. The use of a datum LASER altimeter for radio altimeter testing is also described. Author

Descriptors:

• (*JET TRANSPORT PLANES
• INSTRUMENTATION)
• (*AIRCRAFT EQUIPMENT
• TEST FACILITIES)
• (*INERTIAL NAVIGATION
• TEST FACILITIES)
• ALTIMETERS
• DIGITAL COMPUTERS
• PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT
• DIGITAL RECORDING SYSTEMS
• LASERS
• GREAT BRITAIN

Subject Categories:

• Transport Aircraft
• Flight Control and Instrumentation

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE