d&tm wrote:
"Tony" wrote in message
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Some will find this reference interesting. An underlying assumption
for the patent seems to be the airplane is in coordinated flight.
Isn't that an uncomfortable assumption for most of you -- slips along
a straight track would go undetected as banks, wouldn't they?

I recall recently helping somebody on this newsgroup with the maths to work
this out.
Given that differential GPS is supposed to be accurate within cm I would
have thought that it would be possilbe to have GPS sensors on the end of the
wings , and the nose and tail for that matter to provide information about
the attitude of an aircraft that would be independant of whether the
aircraft was coordinated or not. . Or perhaps the cm accuracty only applies
in the horizontal plane?

Is the patent applicant the guy who works/ed for NASA that was giving
out papers on this subject several years ago in the NASA Pavillion at
Oshkosh?