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FLIGHT International, 30 April 1944 Is thiswhat most engineers mean when they sayRELIABILITY? ' An integrated guidance, control and checkout system that must be buried in a silo for years and ready to function perfectly at a moment's notice. r That is reliability. These are the systems which keep the Minuteman ICBM continually alert and put it on target. They are designed, developed and produced by the Autonetics Division of North American. All goals, including reliability improvements of 100 times, were met or ex- ceeded — under cost target and ahead of schedule. A year of on-station experience for the D17 computers shows an average of 10,000 hours operating time between failures. For the complex C53 guidance and control console which talks to the computer 24 hours a day, it's 30,000 hours. And the frequently-tested electro- mechanical, nozzlecontrol units rate55,000hours between failures. Now Autonetics is leading the industry into production application of micro- electronics for even greater Minuteman relia- bility and performance. These are but some of themanyachievements by engineersand scien- tists at Autonetics in integrated, cost-effective systems. These achievements set the standard of reliability for the entire electronics industry. North American Aviation/Autonetics NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION S.A., 29 RUE DE LA C 0 U L 0 U V R E N I E R E , GENEVA, SWITZE RLAND
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