That's fascinating Neil, I have a few boring Bendix panaplexes and was curious about their manufacture. I believe they're marked Kr85.
On Mon, Apr 15, 2024, 5:47 PM Neil QQ <nei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Until, at least, sometime in the early 2000's 90's King Radio (aka > Bendix/King) was still selling NAV and COM radios using their own numeric > panaplex type displays e.g. KX155, KX165. These displays were custom > designed and fabricated in-house in Olathe, KS. To the best of my > knowledge they were all neon orange monochrome. The gas used was a > proprietary witches brew that included several radioactive trace elements. > I recall seeing a prototype ILS indicator similar to the one referenced in > this thread. I don't believe the King display was commercialized. > > An ILS display shows deviation from the localizer (right-left guidance) > horizontally and the glideslope deviation (up-down) guidance vertically. > By "keeping the needles centered" the ILS will guide a pilot to the runway > threshold. Such displays were also used for VOR navigation using only the > right-left needles (or lit segments in this case). In the simplest case > they would provide guidance to the VOR station and identify the cardinal > radial direction that was being flown to reach the station. When executing > a simple form of an instrument landing system (ILS) the pilot flies, at a > particular altitude, along a "to" radial to find a particular VOR station. > Once directly over the VOR the pilot flies on a specified VOR "from" radial > until the localizer (right-left) and glideslope (up-down) needles move into > the active range (no longer parked and "flagged" at the display extremes). > From there the pilot "keeps the needles centered" until visual runway > confirmation is obtained. > > On Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 11:27:41 PM UTC-5 Audrey wrote: > >> The seller is the author of this article. >> https://www.industrialalchemy.org/articleview.php?item=3247 >> >> On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 11:36 AM Nick Andrews <nickja...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Never seen or heard about this one before. >>> >>> >>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/276389569367?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=AkFpft62ST6&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=9S4jfnnKS4i&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY >>> >>> Anyone heard of this or have one? >>> >>> -- >>> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "neonixie-l" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAJD4P-ivW5%3DSwf_3hXWVXdad%3DYzA89swwt%3DP%2BqRK2xEMKJ%2B5Gw%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAJD4P-ivW5%3DSwf_3hXWVXdad%3DYzA89swwt%3DP%2BqRK2xEMKJ%2B5Gw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/42ea136c-7ed5-480f-9c29-2ba40025ac3an%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/42ea136c-7ed5-480f-9c29-2ba40025ac3an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAPDJQ6DBG9ozcPMci-%3DPhnavwiLoC86BwvpRCoQ%2BfgXWLghQXA%40mail.gmail.com.
