Development of a Low-Cost Flight Director System for General Aviation

730331

02/01/1973

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National Business Aircraft Meeting and Engineering Display
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The NASA Flight Research Center awarded a contract to Astronautics Corp. of America to develop a low-cost flight director system for general aviation. The system that was designed is expected to cost the consumer less than $3000-a reduction of nearly 70% in the total cost of available systems. The features that permit lower cost without excessive degradation in performance are: use of belt drives, high-volume-production standard parts, single-box construction including gyros, and post-plate construction techniques.
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https://doi.org/10.4271/730331
Pages
10
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Gee, S., and Servais, N., "Development of a Low-Cost Flight Director System for General Aviation," SAE Technical Paper 730331, 1973, https://doi.org/10.4271/730331.
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Feb 1, 1973
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730331
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English