Illumination for Battleship Aircraft Night Operations, Preliminary Tests
Abstract
Three systems of illumination of a ship's slick for night landing were given preliminary tests by pilots at the Naval Air Station, Anacostia, D.C., during December 1936. The three systems were (1) polarized system, involving a polarized searchlight and polarized filters on the windshield of the plane, (2) swinging beam system, one or more ordinary searchlights were rotated to keep their streaks of light slightly ahead of the plane as it landed, (3) two beam system, two searchlights threw two streaks of light down the flying field with a dark streak between which the plane was to land. in some of the tests the plane supplemented the illumination with its own wing landing lights, and in other tests it did not do so.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 14, 1937
- Accession Number
- AD1154899
Entities
People
- Edward O. Hulburt
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory