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APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THE TRUE VALUES OF THE VECTORIAL COMPONENTS OF WIND IN A PRESCRIBED SYSTEM OF COORDINATES WHICH AFFECT AN AIRCRAFT IN FLIGHT, FIRST INTEGRATOR MEANS STORAGE MEANS HAVING OUTPUT POTENTIALS PROPORTIONAL TO PRESENT VALUES OF SAID VECTORIAL COMPONENTS OF WIND, VELOCITY OBTAINING MEANS FOR PROVIDING OUTPUT POTENTIALS PROPORTIONAL TO THE TRUE VALUES OF THE VECTORIAL COMPONENTS OF THE VELOCITY OF THE AIRCRAFT IN AIR, SUMMING MEANS, SAID SUMMING MEANS BEING CONNECTED TO RECEIVE THE OUTPUTS FROM SAID STORAGE MEANS AND SAID VELOCITY OBTAINING MEANS AND SUPPLYING OUTPUT POTENTIALS PROPORTIONAL TO THE SUMS THEREOF TO SAID FIRST INTEGRATOR MEANS, MANUAL CONTROL MEANS INCLUDING A POTENTIAL SOURCE CAPABLE OF BEING VARIED AS A FUNCTION OF THE DEGREE OF MANUAL CONTROL EXERCISED, SAID POTENTIAL SOURCE BEING CONNECTED TO SAID SUMMING MEANS, OBSERVING MEANS FOR SCANNING AN AREA BENEATH SAID AIRCRAFT AND PROVIDING A MANIFESTATION THEREOF ON A DISPLAY DEVICE WHICH INCLUDES A REFERENCE, SAID OBSERVING MEANS BEING CONNECTED TO RECEIVE THE OUTPUTS FROM SAID FIRST INTEGRATOR MEANS AND TO BE DIRECTED THEREBY, SAID MANUAL CONTROL MEANS BEING ADAPTED TO BE MANIPULATED TO ESTABLISH A CONDITION WHEREIN SAID REFERENCE IS RELATED TO SOME POINT IN SAID MANIFESTATION IN A PRESCRIBED MANNER, SAID CONDITION BEING UPSET AND CHANGED THEREAFTR AT A RATE WHICH IS FUNCTION OF THE ERROR OF SAID PRESET VALUES OF THE COMPONENTS OF WIND WITH RESPECT TO THE TRUE VALUES THEREOF, SECOND INTEGRATOR MEANS WHICH INCLUDES SAID STORAGE MEANS AS A PART THEREOF, MULTIPLYING MEANS, CONTROLLED SWITCHING MEANS FOR INITATING A WIND CORRECTION OPERATION, SAID SWITCHING MEANS SWITCHING SAID MANUALLY CONTROLLED POTENTIAL SOURCE AND THE POTENTIALS FROM SAID STORAGE MEANS FROM SAID SUMMING MEANS TO SAID SECOND INTEGRATOR MEANS AND SAID MULTIPLYING MEANS, RESPECTIVELY, SAID MULTIPLYING MEANS MULTIPLYING THE POTENIALS RECEIVED BY THE TIME DURATION OF SAID WIND CORRECTION OPERATION, THE OUTPUT FROM SAID MULTIPLYING MEANS BEING SUPPLIED TO SAID FIRST INTEGRATOR MEANS TO BE SUMMED WITH THE OUTPUT THEREOF, SAID, MANUAL CONTROL MEANS BEING ADAPTED TO BE MANIPULATED IN A MANNER TO RETURN SAID REFERENCE TO ITS ORIGINAL RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID POINT WITHIN A PRESCRIBED TIME, THE LAST-MENTIONED MANIPULATION OF SAID MANUAL CONTROL MEANS VARYING THE OUTPUTS FROM SAID STORAGE MEANS SUCH THAT UPON RETURN OF THE REFERENCE TO ITS PRESCRIBED RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID POINT THE TRUE PROPORTIONAL VALUES OF SAID VECTORIAL COMPONENTS OF WIND ARE STORED IN SAID STORAGE MEANS, AND MEANS FOR OPERATING SAID SWITCHING MEANS TO RETURN THE CONNECTIONS CHANGED TO THEIR ORIGINAL STATE AFTER SAID CONDITION IS REESTABLISHED.