A thermalling turn indicator

Authors

  • Colin Norman The City College of the City University of New York

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Design, Training

Abstract

An instrument has been developed to use the deflection of the wings of a sailplane to produce an instrument panel display that will indicate the direction to turn when entering a thermal...  Design philosophy, experimentation, instrument details, techniques developed, comments, objective tests and  an application to a 1000 km flight are discussed.

Author Biography

Colin Norman, The City College of the City University of New York

http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~hindman/sumvitae.pdf

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Published

2018-02-02

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