Word: crosswind
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...crosswind is causing the plane to drift sideways, the pilot may have to swing the rear antenna to right or left before it picks up the proper pattern of ground radiation. In that case, the amount of antenna swing is also fed into the computer, which then cranks the drift angle into its computations. Working with direction, ground speed, drift angle and flight time from a known point of departure, the pilot's computer becomes an accurate navigator...
...cockpit of a single-engined Piper Comanche. Just before taking off from Morocco, Pilot Conrad stuffed his navigational charts in a brown envelope, a clutch of unpaid bills in another. He handed what he believed to be the bills to a well-wishing U.S. consular official, then flew off crosswind, with a one-ton overload of fuel, into the blue yonder, westbound for Trinidad as his first landfall. Casually opening his remaining envelope, he made a discomfiting discovery: he had mistakenly left his charts behind, had a choice of burning up his excess fuel and returning to Africa...
...some object whose position is known (e.g., the Pentagon). While still within radar range, the instruments tell the ground speed, etc., by radar observations. With increasing distance, the instruments operate on their own, by sensing delicately each force that tends to divert the airplane from its proper course. A crosswind, for instance, is felt as a push from one side, and its effect is evaluated. All the deviations are "integrated" (put together and added up) by electronic computing devices. So the pilot, says Ryan, always knows where...
Demanding a full investigation, Director Glass charged that "it would appear that the aircraft was operated carelessly and recklessly." Into the Fray. Over the air, Godfrey kept explaining all week to his audiences that he was forced into the left turn by a gusty crosswind. He complained that he had been refused the use of another runway heading into the wind. He alternately joked about the incident ("Who is this fellow Glass? Maybe he wants to run for governor") and darkly warned that the airport was being mismanaged. In Manhattan, columnists leaped into the. fray...
Greeley led off the eighth with a hard double that landed in deep left-centerfield, despite a strong crosswind. Dick Clasby walked, and Johnson loaded the bases by beating out a neat sacrifice bunt which the Holy Cross infield didn't have time to play...