Navigation in Automatic Flight

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 equipmen...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of Navigation
Main Author: Boxer, H. E. C.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1948
Subjects:
Ocean Engineering
Oceanography
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300034615
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0373463300034615
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Summary: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.

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