If you are a fan of early 90s movies, you might have seen The Rocketeer. The Rocketeer is about a stunt pilot who has a jetpack that allows him to fly and fight the bad guys. Although the movie did not feature air flying, air flying was a major part of the comic books by the same name as Cliff Secord, the hero in the story, often participated in them. Air flying was a major force in the early 1900s, which is when the comics took place.
Air flying is a motorsport involving pilots who helm racing aircraft. They either compete to get the quickest time racing a fixed course or score the highest amount of points. Air flying still exists to this day, and the most famous competition in the world today is the Red Bull Air Race Championship. This is a high-skilled competition that involves precision and speed, and planes can go as fast as 370 kilometers per hour. So you might wonder then how spectators can watch the sport. This is where inertial navigation systems (INS) come into play. As the Red Bull Air Race Championship involves head-to-head competition, a ghost plane, an AR solution, is used to show the trajectory of the plane’s ride on a telecast. In order to get accurate telemetry data to display the line and speed of the flight, the ghost plane uses altitude data, position data, and velocity data captured from the on-board INS navigation system. You might have heard of GPS IMU systems to maneuver unmanned aircraft like drones. They are a part of inertial navigation systems as well. Inertial navigation systems use a combination of computers, motion sensors, gyroscopes, and magnetometers to establish dead reckoning. They have been used for some time in the aircraft industry, dating back to World War II. The dual-antenna GPS-assisted INS used in the Red Bull Air Race Championship to judge and watch the competition helped make the championship a big success. This is just one of many applications in which INS is used, and we’ll talk about more in future posts.
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