PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENT SYNTHESIZER.
Abstract
The sophistication and performance capabilities of modern airborne weapons systems, combined with their present rate of advancement, make it imperative that control/display state-of-the-art improvements and developmental programs take on an accelerated pace. Desired progress has been restrained by old fashioned cut and try methods. This report describes the engineering aspects of a scheme to alleviate many of the problems associated with instrumentation development. Pre-prototype evaluation of new or revised instruments is possible by viewing a motion picture of the proposed design in its intended dynamic form. The movie is produced by automating artwork on a simple display stage in response to recorded digital information from an analog flight simulator. Complex displays are made by multiple exposures which photographically superimpose the moving elements in the display and by the maintenance of synchronism between the movie film and the recorded data on punched paper tape. Indications are that the system has been adequately designed for ease of operation and reliability, although some difficulty with instability was encountered in the recording equipment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1966
- Accession Number
- AD0482066
Entities
People
- William R. Austin