The Design for an Optical Rate Display

Abstract

There is a definite need for optical rate displays, especially in the critical task of landing aircraft. In the course of developing such a display, other unique characteristics evolved that are significant improvements to the information provided by many of the extant position, position error, and rate displays. There are many possible applications and generalizations of the principles utilized for this particular display in this specific problem to other man-machine control problems requiring precise manipulations.