Aircraft altimeters, while ingenious mechanical devices, are susceptible to various inherent errors, including mechanical malfunctions, installation issues, and lag (hysteresis). Environmental factors ...

Mid-Continent Instruments has received TSO certification and started delivering two new instruments, the MD15 two-in. altimeter and the MD25 two-in. airspeed indicator. “The MD15 altimeter and MD25 ...

There’s a strange synchronicity in the projects we see here at Hackaday, where different people come up with strikingly similar stuff at nearly the same time. We’re not sure why this is, but it’s ...

MDA, a Maxar Technologies company (NYSE: MAXR) (TSX: MAXR), today announced that the laser altimeter instrument it built for the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) contribution to NASA’s Origins, Spectral ...

Here is a neat project I found at Matjaž Vidmar’s Website. The purpose of this project was to design an accurate radio altimeter with a dual-channel (quadrature) homodyne receiver. This new design ...