AIRCRAFT MOUNTED DUAL BLADE ANTENNA ARRAY

摘要

An aircraft mounted antenna system comprising a plurality of linear blade antenna arrays mounted on an upper portion of an aircraft fuselage. The blade arrays are symmetrically placed on the fuselage about a plane vertically bisecting the upper portion of the fuselage. The placement of the blade arrays is such that large scanning angle gain losses are minimized as the blade arrays on one side of the fuselage hand off the satellite tracking, acquisition, and communication to the blade arrays on the other side of the fuselage as the scanning angle increases.