System which uses airborne receiving equipment to provide pilot with vertical guidance to touchdown on airport runway; 5 flush mounted runway antennas are used to radiate UHF glide-path signal from precision destination of aircraft; basic theory for end fire, transverse electric, traveling wave, dielectric filled antenna is given, and results of scale model measurements made at X-band frequencies; results obtained with models operating near 332 Mc; glide-path system was established at Ohio State Univ Airport, and over 90 hr of flight data were obtained.


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    Title :

    Airport glide-path system


    Additional title:

    Ohio State Univ -- Eng Experiment Station -- Bul


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    Publication date :

    1962


    Size :

    103 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


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