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1969
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WGHT International, 2 January 1969 INDUSTRY International Products Company News Passenger Conveyor Belts A solution to the problem of moving large numbers of pedestrians in urban areas, and of relieving the increasing risk of traffic stagnation, may well provide a useful rub-off for passenger handling at air ports—where, in fact, the germ of the idea largely grew. The method is the carriage of passengers by conveyor belt; and Dunlop, in collaboration with the Battelle Research Institute and the National Research Development Cor poration, has reached an important stage in the planning of such a system. "Speedaway," the Dunlop system, should solve the operating-speed problem. The patented Battelle integrator installed at boarding stations will provide a means of accelerating; or decelerating people boarding or leaving the comparatively fast-moving belt. The new system is expected to increase the scope of this form of transportation for distances of a mile or more. In future large airport schemes, passengers could be carried swiftly from the railway terminal or car park to waiting aircraft by this means. Of transversely rigid construction, the belt would pass over rollers at its edges only, thus providing passengers with a firm yet smooth ride. Speed might be around 10 m.p.h., but the entry speed at the integrator would be compatible with the needs of older people—i.e., about 2 m.p.h. With stations at every quarter- mile a double moving belt three feet wide would have a capacity of 30,000 passengers an, hour. Other advantages claimed are that it would eliminate wait ing and be economical and silent in operation. ATC Information Displays Two large projection screens 9ft X 12ft display all the visual information used by control lers handling traffic in and out of the three major and sixteen satellite New York airports. The screens, recently introduced by the FAA at John F. Kennedy Airport, are illuminated by special xenon bulbs recently developed by the lamp division of the Westing- house Electric Co. Avoiding the necessity of using a complex carbon-arc system, the 2.500W lamps work on a short-arc principle, using two tungsten electrodes with an extremely small gap, in which the arc is struck. Controllers, co-ordinators, sequencers and supervisors, can all watch the same display while at the same time being in direct contact with each other; in the past they used small individual console displays and worked in widely separated installations. The new displays show information combining radar, computer alpha-numerics and video, mapping covering the entire area of flight opera tions from Kennedy to Newark. Radar information transmitted from FAA ground sites is converted into' tele vision scan signals and fed into the screen displays, which were supplied by TNT Communications Inc. Computer- generated information indicating aircraft identification, altitude and other flight information is channelled in simul taneously. Mapping, including important identification boundaries at the airports and flight approach patterns, is also dis played. Clean-air Facility A new clean-air shop installed at Aircraft Supplies Ltd, Bournemouth, is now in full operation and has the approval of Mintech and the ARB. Aircraft Supplies Ltd specialises in the supply and overhaul of gyroscopic instruments, and the laminar-flow, clean-air worktables (supplied by A. M. Fell Ltd) are used for overhaul and assembly of a wide range of gyro equip ment and the manufacture of Midas air craft accident data recorders. A second Schwien precision mercury mono- meter has been installed in the BAC clean- air laboratory at Filton. Two manometers are being used in the calibration of Crouzet Type 50 air data computers for use in the Concorde. Designed and manufactured by Schwien Engineering (Pamona, Calif), the manometers measure pressures over the range of 0-l00in Hg, to an accuracy of O.OOOSin Hg. UK agents are FieldTech Ltd at London Airport PEOPLE AND POSTS Mr William T. Seawell has been appointed to the board of the Rolls- Royce Aero Engine Division. Mr Harry Greenwood has been made works director of L. A. Rumbold Ltd and Mr A. L. Wrigley senior sales executive. Mr W. G. Haines has been made sales engineer, Western region, for Weather- head Manufacturing (England) Ltd, of Hemel Hempstead, Herts. Mr Richard W. Taylor is one of four members of the board of the Boeing Company to be elected vice-presidents. He becomes general manager of the Military Airplane Systems Division. Mr Oliver C. Boileau will be maintenance programme manager, Missile and In formation Systems Division of the Aero space Group; Mr Otis H. Smith is appointed general manager of the Wichita Division; and Mr H. N. Stuverude is now assistant general manager of the Vertol Division and maanger of its Light Intratheater Trans port Program Branch. Operators assembling equipment in the new clean-air facility at Aircraft Supplies Ltd (see above)
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