An Airborne Receiver Technique for Obtaining Landing Instructions from the Beam of a Ground-based Tracking Radar |
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airborne receiver aircraft airframe airplane analog analog computer analysis angle antenna approximately attenuator autopilot axes axis Bell Aircraft Corporation binary decoder binary digits cavity magnetron channel sequence selector circuit closed-loop code group code start pulse code structure Coefficient coinc coincidence gate coincidence gate 16 components coordinates crystal crystal detector data-link delay mv diode diode adder diode matrix disable gate encoded equipment error filter flat-topped pulses flight path flight-path computer flip-flop frequency ground radar gust holds coincidence gate input label address landing system line-pulser loop magnetron master sync microseconds multivibrator noise optimized output parity check path computer phugoid pilot predecoder pulse shift detector pulse-pair radar radar beam recovery reset response runway sampling second pulse shown in Figure signal SRPM stability derivatives storage sync pulse synchronization thesis touchdown point tracking radar transfer function transmitted turbulence values velocity voltage waveguide zero