Old Strange Idea for Glenn Martin

[hesham]

From Ailes 6/1950,

here is an a strange idea from Glenn Martin;

A ROTATING ANTENNA MAT was designed by the Glenn L. Martin Company for
be used either for issued
or retransmissions into
television relay, either for the
radio-guidance of remote-controlled machines.

This antenna can be mounted
on the stern cone and be
standing upright, during
the flights, for the issue, or, still, in intermediate positions between the vertical and
the horizontal. His presence at the
continued the elevators would have no effect on
the action of the latter during the
take off and climb the plane
This installation is the result
Martin's "stratovision" experiments
in collaboration with Westinghouse Electria Corporation:
these experiences showed everything
the interest that would present a mast
antenna as far away as possible from the mass of the wing
and, especially, powertrain groups, because the propellers of the latter absorb in part
emissions and cause
"Ghost signals". With the stern antenna, it would also avoid the distortions caused in the emission field by the main structures of the aircraft.

 

[Schneiderman]

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=US&NR=2495748A&KC=A&FT=D&ND=3&date=19500131&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP#

 

[hesham]

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=US&NR=2495748A&KC=A&FT=D&ND=3&date=19500131&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP#

Thank you my dear Schneiderman.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Should this be over in Avionics?

 

[riggerrob]

This reminds us of a B-29 that was modified as a high altitude radio transmitter. During the late 1940s.
Glenn Matin’s concept is just a simplified/productionised version.

An aviation magazine published one photo of that modified B-29 flying with one huge antenna hinged straight down from the belly and a second huge antenna hnged i a straight up from the top of the fuselage. The caption mentioned something about extending range of civilian (AM?) radio music entertainment.

 

[DWG]

Sounds like an early version of the technology that became TACAMO, which they got down to just a trailing aerial.

 

[Hood]

This reminds us of a B-29 that was modified as a high altitude radio transmitter. During the late 1940s.
Glenn Matin’s concept is just a simplified/productionised version.

An aviation magazine published one photo of that modified B-29 flying with one huge antenna hi gned straight down from the belly and a second huge antenna hnged i a straight up from the top of the fuselage. The caption mentioned something about extending range of civilian (AM?) radio music entertainment.

That was Martin's Stratovision as an aerial TV transmitter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratovision

 

[TomS]

Sounds like an early version of the technology that became TACAMO, which they got down to just a trailing aerial.

Trailing wire antennas were used long before TACAMO. Poke around and you'll find pics of the trailing wire HF antennas from various aircraft. Many WW2 bombers seem to have had them as an alternative to the fixed wire "clothesline" antennas fixed to the tail fin or one of the wings.

 

[DWG]

Trailing wire antennas were used long before TACAMO. Poke around and you'll find pics of the trailing wire HF antennas from various aircraft. Many WW2 bombers seem to have had them as an alternative to the fixed wire "clothesline" antennas fixed to the tail fin or one of the wings.

Agreed, though I was thinking specifically of radio relay with TACAMO.

 

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