Accession Number:

ADD005411

Title:

Aircraft Landing Aid for Zero-Zero Visibility Landings.

Descriptive Note:

Patent,

Corporate Author:

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON D C

Personal Author(s):

• Lewis,Bernard L.

Report Date:

1978-07-18

Pagination or Media Count:

7.0

Abstract:

An aircraft landing system which provides a pilot a perspective view of a runway on which he intends to land under zero visibility conditions. The system includes a multiplicity of microwave transmitters spaced at known intervals along both sides of a runway and a timing generator which causes the microwave transmitters to transmit in sequence. The aircraft contains a monopulse receiver which provides conventional azimuth angle video information to a CRT display and also provides range video information to a Y sweep generator. The latter Y sweep generator generates a sweep voltage for the Y axis of the CRT display which is of sufficient length to display all transmitted pulses from all microwave transmitters in sequence with the correct relative spacing between microwave transmitters. Author

Descriptors:

• *Patents
• *Aircraft landings
• *Display systems
• Microwave transmission

Subject Categories:

• Aircraft

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE