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Description The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Antietam (CVS-36) takes aboard a Douglas F3D Skyknight during testing of the Bell Automatic Landing System, in 1957. An F3D Skynight, command pilot LCdr Don Walker, landed aboard the Antietam hands-off on 12 August 1957. This landing was the first shipboard test of an automatic landing system designed to recover aircraft in all weather conditions.
Note Antietam´s radar equipment: SPS-10 (mast, right), SPS-6 (mast, left), SPS-8A (right) were up-to date radars, but the SC radar (left) and the YE homing beacon (left of SPS-8A) were outdated radars from the Second World War.
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Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.488.061.041
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