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Aviation History
1957
1957 - 0474.PDF
#-&*$: FLIGHT, 12 April 1957 Sabena DC-7C equipped with R.C.A. AVQ-10 weather radar (left of control column), Sperry Integrated Instrument System and the auto- pilot, the controller of which is in the centre of the main console. A B.E.A. first officer reaches up to adjust the Flight Log display of the Decca Navigator in a Viscount. The needle continuously traces the aircraft track on the moving chart. Two Marconi A.D.F.s are close by. High Calling THE fickleness of the elements, epitomized by thesilhouetted Lockheed Neptune, continues to de- mand professional skill as well as technical innova-tion. The calling of air pilot or air navigator is among the highest open to any man, and to guardover professional interests a Livery Company of the City of London—the Guild of Air Pilots andAir Navigators—was constituted on April 10, 1956. The Grand Master, himself practised in both trades,may have had in mind the flight-decks of modern airliners, such as we illustrate, when he cast anappraising eye over the Blackburn monoplane of 1912 Qower right). In this very issue we recordthe Guild's impressive first annual banquet, at Mansion House on April 3. The new coat of armsis reproduced on the opposite page.
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