Operational problems in aircraft telemetering

On September 1, 1955, the Glenn L. Martin Company received the first section of Telemetering Ground equipment for aircraft operation. (slide) Two months later this equipment was used as a ground source for collecting data from a new model aircraft on its initial flight. Although the company has been using Telemetering as a data collecting medium on missiles for several years, the problems encountered in the ensuing year and a half showed that the Glenn L. Martin Company was rather naive in its approach to telemetering for aircraft.