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Navigational Systems and Instrument Aids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

D. E. Adams  and
A. M. Uttley
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Extract

To the aircraft designer and contractor, those of us responsible for equipment may appear as arch-perpetrators of complex, bulky and weighty “ gadgets,” impossible to install and the source of all unsightly excrescences on the aircraft's skin.

Any aircraft, from its inception should be designed for some specific role, and its usefulness may well depend upon the availability or simultaneous development of equipment.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 54 , Issue 473 , May 1950 , pp. 269 - 293
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1950

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