Low cost attitude position sensor for high speed vehicles

Details Low cost attitude position sensor for high speed vehicles Low cost attitude position sensor for high speed vehicles

1975-08-27

1976-11-09

Blix, Trygve M.

Aeronautics and astronautics

Aircraft control

Automatic

244175, 244 314, 244 321, B64C 1318

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039906590

ABSTRACT:
A pair of electrostatic sensors are recessed in the outer wall of a superic ballistic body.
The vertical electrostatic gradient in the atmosphere produces a voltage differential between the sensors when one sensor is higher than the other. Since the fixed geometrical relationship between the sensors is known, the magnitude and sign of the voltage differential can be correlated to the instantaneous attitude of the vehicle with respect to the earth's surface.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3283241 (1966-11-01), Forbes
patent: 3317826 (1967-05-01), Knop
patent: 3868074 (1975-02-01), Hill

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