US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

William W Stripling

Joe S Hunter

Harold V White

A radial arm tracker with a constant drive ratio for use in monitoring the osition of a guidance platform during the firing azimuth alignment phase. One end of the radial arm is mounted to the rotor of an encoder and a telescope is pivotally mounted at the free end of the radial arm through a constant ratio drive system to a stator of an encoder. The stator of the encoder is coupled to a north seeking device. The missile firing azimuth is referenced to the output of the north seeking device through the radial arm tracker.

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William W Stripling