Who invented ils

The standard transmission media was a ridged assembly of two conductors isolated by Isolantite beads enclosed in three quarter inch copper tubing.

The cable problem handicapped a transportable system. At the same time there was concern that the ITT vertical antenna patterns dependence on a ground image might exclude installations in non- level sites.

Cincinnati Airport located in a bowl like environment and Pittsburgh Airport located on a flattened mountaintop were the primary test sites. We reinstalled the entire equipment in a small truck for mobility and with newly developed flexible cable that gave us a new set of problems. The dielectric in the cable was extremely thermoplastic to the extent that made it useless. It was soon replaced by a new design and a new dielectric, consisting of a pair of coaxial cables that all but solved the problem.

Unfortunately its electrical length was temperature sensitive to the extent we had to readjust the phase with temperature to keep the antennas properly fed. I proposed that all antenna cables be the same length and installed in the same environment. This was an immediate and low cost solution and was immediately adopted.

For ITT the test was a complete success notwithstanding the odd test environments. The equipment operated without a failure. In fact the equipment and the receiver reliabilities were outstanding throughout the entire period of development and test, not a single failure. Both the Sperry and MIT systems were state of the art but unfortunately their receivers failed frequently during the tests. Further they did not meet the foot offset from the runway requirement although their narrow antenna beams made them less susceptible to site reflection problems.

Chester Watts left to join the Signal Corps. I remained as project engineer for the remainder of the development contract including writing the instruction and maintenance manuals and training Air Force pilot instructors in the use and piloting technique of the landing system. Although I had moved to assignments in electronic countermeasures I was called to participate if any questions arose.

None did. In the mid forties the FAA issued a fixed price invitation for glide path systems incorporating a requirement for constant impedance phasers. Asked by: Kaela Turner.

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Hollmann's book "Physics and Technique of Ultrashort Waves" from which the picture below is taken. By , both the Lorenz Co.

This system was also installed in England with the name "Standard Beam Approach.