Accession Number:

AD0744318

Title:

Airborne Flight Inspection Inertial Locator Equipment Development and Flight Evaluation.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LAB

Personal Author(s):

• Drohan,William A.
• Hursh,John W.
• Johnson,William M.
• Mamon,Glenn

Report Date:

1971-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

320.0

Abstract:

Development and flight results are presented from a program to test feasibility of using an inertial system to provide the aircraft position reference for performing basic flight inspection of ILS and VORTAC facilities. An Inertial Locator Equipment was designed, constructed and integrated into the SEAL flight inspection system. Numerous flights were made at both the Bedford Flight Facility of the M. I. T. Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and at NAFEC in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Methods for the utilization of externally derived information post-landing check point for ILS mode and DME range for VORTAC mode were incorporated in the system. The use of the corrected data mode in both types of inspection missions demonstrated improvement over real-time inertial performance, yielding acceptable results. Author

Descriptors:

• (*INSTRUMENT LANDINGS
• INERTIAL NAVIGATION)
• (*CIVIL AVIATION
• *LANDING AIDS)
• DISTANCE MEASURING EQUIPMENT
• FLIGHT TESTING
• GLIDE PATH SYSTEMS
• RADIO TRANSMISSION
• FLIGHT INSTRUMENTS
• RELIABILITY(ELECTRONICS)

Subject Categories:

• Commercial and General Aviation
• Air Navigation and Guidance

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE