

This determination of the position of the aircraft may be derived from what is commonly known as the wind triangle in which vectors may be plotted that represent the selected true course, wind, and true air speed of the aircraft. In the basic form of air navigation known as dead reckoning, the instantaneous position of the aircraft being so navigated is determined from a continuous plot of the track and average ground speed of the aircraft with the elapsed time from a known departure and/or intermediate check point or turning position along the track. A trig-log scale-inscribed disc is interposed between the relative bearing-cursor assembly disc and the calculator-lower disc, and a compass indicator disc is mounted on the relative bearing-cursor assembly disc. A computer-wind side includes a relative bearing-cursor assembly disc that is laminated to the reverse side of the calculator side-lower disc and is inscribed with ''''TRUE AIR SPEED/GROUND SPEED'''' and radially-aligned wind drift and course indices at the 180* relative bearing value with a radial cursor line extending between the wind drift and true air speed/ground speed indices. G01C21/20- Instruments for performing navigational calculationsĪn air navigation computer having a calculator side consisting of a lower disc inscribed with log-distance, compressibility, Mach number and temperature error scales a central disc inscribed with ''''TRUE AIR SPEED/GROUND SPEED'''' and having logtime, density altitude and temperature scales, and a Mach number and temperature error window and an upper disc having a density altitude window, a pressure altitude scale and an equivalentcalibrated air speed cursor assembly.G01C21/00- Navigation Navigational instruments not provided for in groups G01C1/00 - G01C19/00.G01C- MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS SURVEYING NAVIGATION GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY.G06G1/0052- Hand manipulated computing devices characterised by a specific application for air navigation or sea navigation.G06G1/0005- Hand manipulated computing devices characterised by a specific application.

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Google Patents Integrated flight data air navigation computer systemĭownload PDF Info Publication number US3693872A US3693872A US3693872DA US3693872A US 3693872 A US3693872 A US 3693872A US 3693872D A US3693872D A US 3693872DA US 3693872 A US3693872 A US 3693872A Authority US United States Prior art keywords disc scale speed air speed logarithmic Prior art date Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion.

Google Patents US3693872A - Integrated flight data air navigation computer system US3693872A - Integrated flight data air navigation computer system
