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Assessment Conditions in the Evaluation of an Airborne Navigation Radar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

H. F. Huddleston
H. F. Huddleston
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(R.A.F. Institute of Aviation Medicine)
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The ability to map terrain by means of an airborne radar raises many possibilities. Some few years ago it was recognized that a mapping radar which scanned to the side of an aircraft (rather than ahead) might, additionally, have important military potential. The research described here concerns the early operator evaluation of a prototype sidescan equipment which promised, among other things, to permit accurate fix-point navigation at lower flight altitudes.

By recent standards our aircraft was to progress at a fairly gentlemanly rate, somewhat below the speed of sound. Hence the radar map, produced as a moving strip by a rapid photo-development technique, did not threaten to flash past the navigator's eyes at an impossible speed. Nor, in general, did we expect the operator to be provided with anything unsatisfactory in the way of briefing. What is more, the navigator would be able to devote his undivided attention to the radar material whenever a fix-point was due.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , January 1970 , pp. 45 - 48
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1970

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