AUTOMATIC NAVIGATOR AN/APN-66.

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Abstract:

The Automatic Navigator ANAPN-66 is a completely self-contained, radar dead-reckoning navigation system. It provides a highly accurate, instantaneous, and continuous presentation of true ground speed and drift angle, the two most important quantities in dead reckoning navigation. The APN-66 provides continuous course to destination, present position, distance, and heading data to the pilot or navigator by combining ground speed and drift angle with other navigational parameters such as starting position, destination position, heading reference, and time. It can also provide control voltages to the automatic pilot for completely automatic flight to the destination, and giving a visual indication to the pilot.

Author(s):
No Author(s) Identified
Author Organization(s):
GENERAL PRECISION INC PLEASANTVILLE N Y GENERAL PRECISION LAB DIV
Descriptive Note:
Engineering rept.
Annotation:
Automatic navigator AN/APN-66 based on the Doppler radar principle.
Pagination:
0035

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Approved For Public Release

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Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
ER-A11-51-Suppl
Contract/Grant Number(s):
W-33-038-AC-14192
 Subject Terms
Communities of Interest:
No COI(s) Identified
Descriptor(s):
(*DOPPLER NAVIGATION, DOPPLER SYSTEMS), (*AUTOMATIC PILOTS, DOPPLER NAVIGATION), (*NAVIGATION, DOPPLER SYSTEMS), (*NAVIGATION COMPUTERS, DOPPLER SYSTEMS), ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS, FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS, NAVIGATIONAL AIDS, DOPPLER RADAR, DOPPLER EFFECT
Keyword(s):
AN APN 66
Report Date:
1957 Jan 01