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Navigation in Automatic Flight

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

H. E. C. Boxer
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At 2215 hours GMT on 21 September 1947 the U.S.A.A.F. All-Weather Flying Centre's Automatic C54 took off automatically from Stephenville, Newfoundland, and twelve hours and five minutes later landed at Brize Norton, England. Neither pilot nor navigator had interfered with the automatic equipment during the entire flight. What, briefly, is the navigation equipment and procedure employed on such a flight?

Equipment. The navigation equipment consists of three magnetic heading selectors, two air log units or AMUS and a radio compass which will automatically switch to a number of preselected frequencies.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1948 , pp. 87 - 88
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1948

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