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I—An Elementary Compound System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

C. Powell
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This paper is concerned with combining the information from a ground-based radio navigation aid (the Decca Navigator) with self-contained sources of dead-reckoning such as air data and doppler. The essentially complementary relationship between D.R. devices and a ground-reference radio system can be exploited so as to produce an airborne navigational system whose merit exceeds that of either component individually. There is, of course, nothing new in a proposition of this kind. It is suggested that a combination such as that of Decca and a self-contained dead-reckoning device can usefully be described as a ‘compound’ system since the whole is formed, to quote the relevant entry in Webster's dictionary, ‘by the aggregation of otherwise independent elements’.

Type
Compound Air Navigation Systems
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 1963 , pp. 467 - 472
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1963

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