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Title: Radar and speed measurement
Post by: straffo on July 20, 2004, 03:04:39 AM

I remember having read about the use of radar to measure the speed of airplanes in the 40's (for the F4U if me memory don't fail)

can someone point me to an example ?

Title: Radar and speed measurement
Post by: gripen on July 20, 2004, 03:24:17 AM

IIRC I've heard about radar measurements too, can't remember where. It's not very accurate method for TAS measurements due to wind specially at high altitude but for ground speed measurements it's ok.

gripen

Title: Radar and speed measurement
Post by: F4UDOA on July 20, 2004, 01:32:08 PM

Straffo,

Indeed you are correct. I have the test reports from Vought.