blind landing in a sentence
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- Hamm fell from first place to 12th after that fall, a Tsukahara with 2 1 / 2 twists, an extremely difficult move with a blind landing.
- Among these was a considerable amount of research and development of blind landing aids which allowed aircraft to approach an airport at night or in bad weather.
- This was similar to the beam systems like Lorenz, which the UK aircrew were already familiar with using as a blind landing aid in the pre-war period.
- The L-1011 featured a highly advanced autopilot system and was the first widebody to receive FAA certification for blind landings in zero-visibility weather performed by the aircraft's autopilot.
- The world's first demonstration of an aircraft making a " hands off " automatic blind landing, using equipment the forerunner of modern ILS, was at Defford in January 1945.
- :: : : Takeoff doesn't require visibility, and from the early days of electronics blind landings have been possible-- talk ) 07 : 10, 17 June 2009 ( UTC)
- In October 1937, Robert ( Bob ) J . Dippy, working at Robert Watson-Watt's radar laboratory at RAF Bawdsey, proposed using two synchronized transmitters as the basis for a blind landing system.
- From 1941 to 1947 there was a co-located Royal Air Force and Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm training station called " HMS Godwit ", which specialised in instrument and blind landing technologies.
- It was during this second deployment that one of the ships officers, Sub-Lieutenant J . M . Morrison invented a blind landing system soon to be used on all the Royal Navy carriers.
- Early in 1946, the Bomb Ballistics and Blind Landing Unit moved in which, in 1950, was rechristened the Armament and Instrument Experimental Unit ( A & IEU ) remaining at Martlesham until disbanding in 1957.