The Blind Landing Experimental Unit, abbreviated BLEU, was a unit of the British government tasked with creating an early autolanding system for military...

beacon system Units of the Royal Air Force. The first system to guide RAF aircraft safely down onto a runway was called the Standard Blind Approach (SBA)...

Superintendent of the UK Royal Aircraft Establishment's (RAE) Blind Landing Experimental Unit (BLEU), concluded a discussion of statistical results by saying...

early 1944. In 1945, as part of the Blind Landings Experimental Unit, he recorded the world's first auto landing, a forerunner of autopilot. He retired...

Blind Landing Experimental Unit RAF Bomb Ballistic and Blind Landing Experimental Unit RAF (1949-50) became Armament and Instrument Experimental Unit RAF...

evaluation by Avro, Bristol Siddeley Engines, Rolls-Royce and the Blind Landing Experimental Unit (BLEU) RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus: two B.2 squadrons from 1969...

based there, dropping Grand Slam bombs on Orford Ness, and the Blind Landing Experimental Unit (BLEU) was located at Woodbridge. Eventually it was closed...

airborne radar and blind-landing systems. It is particularly notable as the first aircraft to perform a completely automatic approach and landing, in January...

in 1961 to the Blind Landing Experimental Unit (BLEU) at RAE Bedford, the final testbed role played by G–ANLO was in automatic landing system experiments...

the two remaining British-based Kestrels was attached to the Blind Landing Experimental Unit (BLEU) at RAE Bedford and the other, XS693, went to Blackburn...

more success in that role than it did in guiding ships. The Blind Landing Experimental Unit later tried a similar system briefly before also abandoning...

for an incoming Comet arriving in a fog. We also see the 'Blind Landing Experimental Unit' on a Vickers Viking. 1961 Men in the Mode Tim Turner A look...

the Bomb Ballistics and Blind Landing Unit moved in which, in 1950, was rechristened the Armament and Instrument Experimental Unit (A&IEU) remaining at Martlesham...

RAF as a test pilot and in particular with the Blind Landing Experimental Unit performing automatic landing trials. He retired from the RAF on 3 December...

City University; the A320 was the first fly-by-wire airliner; Blind Landing Experimental Unit testing at RAE Bedford in the 1960s, and developing the automatic...

unit. A second L-1011 airliner, which had been retired from Trans World Airlines and rescued for filming purposes, was used for take-off and landing shots...

the Moon, but the Apollo 13 landing mission was aborted en route. Haise went on to fly five Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests in 1977, before retiring...

Inserts During Simulated Landing Approaches, NASA/TP-2003-212643 Archived 2004-11-01 at the Wayback Machine "No More Flying Blind, NASA". Nasa.gov. 2007-11-30...

Many night fighters of the conflict also included instrument landing systems for landing at night, as turning on the runway lights made runways into an...

achievements was the invention of an electronic aid to navigation and blind landings, considered so vital to the Third Reich that upon being patented it...

Personnel landing craft "Shohatsu" Personnel landing craft "Chuhatsu" Vehicle landing craft "Daihatsu" Vehicle landing craft "Toku-Daihatsu" Vehicle Landing Craft...

engines. Bell 208 Experimental twin-engine "Twin Huey" prototype. Bell 209 Original AH-1G prototype with retractable skid landing gear. Bell 210 15 seat...

production and it became a standard instrument on many aircraft as blind landing became commonplace. A paper describing the system was published jointly...

Landing Craft Assault (LCA) was a landing craft used extensively in World War II. Its primary purpose was to ferry troops from transport ships to attack...

its black projects. On 26 September 1994, after an aircraft crashed on landing due to a nosewheel collapse, a USAF C5 Galaxy was redirected to the station...

to 36 miles. Beam Approach Beacon System (BABS) ARI TR3567 - British blind-landing system using the Eureka beacon. Benjamin – British Y-Gerät jammer -...

and manufactured by Canadair between 1964 and 1972. Only four of these experimental aircraft were built, with three entering flight testing. Two of the CL-84s...

front-line unit to use this variant; following an initial workup period, the squadron briefly transferred to HMS Illustrious for deck landing practice....

ones, to move a large unit of tanks across a body of water. Also, such floats made a tank too wide to launch from an off-shore landing craft, making their...

A. 1929 – Yosami Radio Transmitting Station 1929 – First blind takeoff, flight, and landing; using designated radio and aeronautical instrumentation 1930–1945...