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- From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
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- Subject: Re: Interesting Article on Japanese WWII Radar
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:57:10 GMT
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- From fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
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- >From Charles.K.Scott@dartmouth.edu (Charles K. Scott)
- >James Parkyn <jparkyn@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov> writes:
- >
- >> Maybe the microwaves could disrupt the ignition system or cook the pilot,
- >> but there were no control systems that I can recall until almost the end of the
- >> war in planes such as the B-29 that had empty-state devices (vacuum tubes) in
- >> (gasp) analog fire control computers. I really can't remember if they had
- >> tube autopilots.
- >
- >Most if not all American bombers had an autopilot. If they used the
- >Norden bonbsight, they had to because the bombsight was coupled to the
- >auto pilot and was flying the airplane during the run in to the target.
- > These autopilots were gyros I believe, I don't think tubes were
- >involved.
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- The Sperry autopilots were gyro types. The earliest flying experiments
- with a Sperry-type autopilot were done around 1918 with a gadget called
- the Doodlebug. Nothing like the later V-1...sort of like a Nieuport with
- no visible pilot.
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