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1968
1968-1 - 0237.PDF
The front panel of Computing Devices Sin-diameter projected map display designed for the A-7E Corsair 2 IS, W3U.SMAN INSTRUMENT UMilED !V Kollsman Instrument vertical-scale engine display panel FLIGHT-DECK DISPLAYS A "Flight" guide to British suppliers Company addresses (reduced to the minimum for space reasons) include the telephone number but not the exchange, unless its name differs from that of the town. The STD prefix "01-" has been omitted from London area telephone numbers. The word "London" is not included In London addresses; only postal district refer ences are shown, e.g., "SE1". Adwest Engineering Ltd (Western Manufac turing Div) Reading (0735 52351) Warning indicators. Avimo Ltd Taunton (0823 81071) Optical instruments; gyro sights; periscopes. Barr & Stroud Ltd Anniesland, Glasgow W3 (041-954 9601) Periscopes and optical sights; video homing equipment; laser rangefinder. Browne & Son Ltd, Henry Barking, Essex (594 4054) Sestrel compasses. Camerer Cuss & Co 54 New Oxford St, WC1 (636 4861) Aircraft clocks. Two recent developments have been designed to Right, Fell (K & S—Fell Sales) digital-output aircraft clock Below, the new Decco Mk 6A Right Log designed for use with the Mk2B Omnitrac digital computer provide digital outputs for flight recorder systems. One is operational in Epsylon EFDAS-equipped aircraft with BOAC, and BEA have ordered the latest a.c. data- transmitting clock for aircraft equipped with the new Plessey system. Cobb-Slater Instrument Co Ltd Darley Dale, Matlock (Darley Dale 2138) Com passes and variometers. Collins Radio Co of England Ltd Heath row Ho, Cranford, Middx (759 9911) Collins flight director systems, specified by over 50 airlines, are standard equipment in business jets including the HS.125 and have been ordered for the Boeing 747. Collins, in conjunction with Lear-Siegler, are pro ducing the automatic flight control system, including instruments, for the Lockheed 1011. The FD-108 and FEM09 flight systems are three-dimensional, two-instrument navi gation/attitude displays incorporating head ing, pitch and roll, VOR/ILS data, DME distance and computed steering commands; and using 5in or 4in square flight directors and course indicators. Radio altitude and go-around information, standard in FD-109, is optional in FD-108. Future FD-109 developments will incor porate provision of cross-pointer computed- command, as well as V-bar information; modification of the course indicator for Right, the entire planar surface of this English Electric Sierraglo electro luminescent plastic-laminate control panel—one of several fitted in the Concorde engineer's station—is a light source operation from INS as well as VOR/ILS data inputs; and inclusion of internal servo amplifiers. Navigational displays include 2,500ft to Oft tape and pointer radio altimeters with facilities for selecting minimum decision altitude logic and built-in self-test; DME indicators; drift and ground-speed counter- pointer Doppler indicators; and Doppler two-channel computer indicators showing track-made-good, distance-from-track and distance-to-go. Cockpit panels are manufactured to cover the frequency selection of comm/nav systems and the control of audio-mixing systems within the aircraft. Computing Devices Co Ltd 126 Cromwell Rd, SW7 (373 4861) Among advantages claimed for the latest Computing Devices version of the British-conceived, and Canadian-developed and -produced pro jected moving-map display, is the high- resolution bright-projection of coloured
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