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Stabilised surveillance payloads

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

E. G. Schaschke*
Affiliation:
Ferranti Instrumentation Limited

Extract

It has long been recognised that in moving vehicles, if an observer wishes to study a distant object with any accuracy, the sightline along which he is looking must be stabilised against the vehicle motion. There are various ways by which a sightline may be stabilised, and for several years now the Aircraft Equipment Department of Ferranti Instrumentation Limited have been producing stabilised sighting systems for helicopters and tanks using a directly coupled gyro/mirror technique. At present we are developing systems for use in RPVs, one of which will be flown for evaluation in a fixed wing RPV research vehicle, the other under a tethered parachute.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1981 

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