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1962
1962 - 0187.PDF
FLIGHT International, 1 February 1962 189 INDUSTRY International Flight Systems Products Company News Flight Systems Smiths Digital Computer It is learned that Smiths Aviation Division have com pleted a production version of an airborne digital computer which is contained in the remarkably small volume of two short i ATR cases. Speed and capacity is reported to be comparable with those of existing units; and applications include navigation and complex flight programme calculations. Computing units are in potted 'bricks" rather than on circuit boards and ferrite core memory units, designed by Smiths, can be fitted to provide the desired capacity. More Controlled Airspace On February 15 a control zone will come into force from ground level to 7,000ft around Lyneham, giving RAF Transport Command passen ger-carrying aircraft operating there a direct link with airway Green 1. The extent of the zone is approximately three miles wide by 15 miles long on a north-east to south-west axis based on Lyneham. NDB and VHF/DF procedures are laid down. On March 15 a new airway, Amber 25, will be introduced between Wallasey, Berry Head and Guernsey, replacing or amending the various ADRs in this area and slightly The Sperry Universal Autopilot ASW-12 for the US shown above in an H-21 Shawnee helicopter and a navigation coupler Army, described in these columns on January 4, Grumman Mohawk. The soldier is holding the affecting Green 1. Certain NDBs are to be resited before that date to provide appro priate navigational assistance. FAA on the North Atlantic The Federal Aviation Agency is forming a Systems Planning Team for the North Atlantic Routes of the transatlantic cables referred to at the foot of col 3 , GREENLAND ( n^y ^»"1CELAND.J "XYKJJW1K 7 FAROES TORSHAVN Region (SPANAT) with five members under Claude H. Smith, head of the International Organizations Division. Its purpose will be to study improvements in navigation and traffic control over the north Atlantic and particularly to see that any new system is compatible with the recommendations of Project Beacon. Points to be investigated are the re arrangement of the present control areas, location of airline's dispatching organiza tions, new altimeters, and many other factors. Already, FAA's Project Accordion is studying Doppler as a means of reducing separations, and Project Lodisnav is record ing and analysing flight plans over a whole year, starting last July, to obtain opera tional information. Any new systems would, say FAA, be compatible with ICAO standards; and the overall aim is to have a workable system in being in ten years, when supersonic transports might begin to operate across the Atlantic. Scotice Cable in Service The new under sea cable between Scotland and Iceland, via the Faroes, is now in commission and facilitating direct voice and telegraph communication between traffic control staffs at Croydon, Prestwick, Shannon, Reykjavik and Gander. Communications
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