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1980
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12 * FLIGHT International, S January 1980 Honeywell delivers laser-gyros to Boeing HONEYWELL has delivered an all- digital Inertial Reference System (IRS) based on laser-gyroscopes to Boeing at Renton, Washington. Boeing has adopted Honeywell's IRS for its 757 and 767 and the unit just de livered is intended for a year of lab oratory testing. The IRS is intended to provide information about aircraft attitude and accelerations in all three axes. Data from the IRS will be pro cessed by computer and fed to prim ary flight instruments, the flight management computer and autopilot. Laser-gyroscopes are mounted directly on the airframe, thus doing away with the need for gimbals. Un like conventional instruments they have no moving parts. Honeywell claims that its IRS will be cheaper to buy and maintain than traditional units. Flight-testing of the IRS will begin soon after the laboratory tests are finished. First production stan dard IRSs will be delivered to Boeing in about a year. Each of Boeing's new airliners will have three IRSs. First deliveries of Boeing's 757 and 767 are scheduled for January 1983 and August 1982 respectively. Olympic Airways buys simulator from CAE . . . CAE Electronics of Montreal has won an order from Olympic Airways for a Boeing 737 simulator. Olympic will use the simulator to train pilots and carry out proficiency checks. The simulator sale, worth about $5 mil lion, is CAE's first to the Greek air line. Olympic's Boeing 737 simulator will feature CAE's new six-axis motion system, incorporating advanced control-force feel, as well as a four- window Computer Generated Image (CGI) visual display system. The visual system is a McDonnell Douglas- built Vital IV. Delivery of the simula tor to Olympic's Athens Airport base is scheduled for early 1981. Olympic's ten-year expansion programme in cludes orders for seven Boeing 737s. . . . while Australia orders Singer-Link Hercules simulator THE Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has selected Singer-Link of New York to supply a C-130H Hercules simulator. The simulator will be used to train mainly pilots and flight engineers, but will also be used to train ground engineers. The con tract is worth about $5-8 million. Delivery of the simulator to the RAAF's Richmond base in New South Wales is scheduled during May 1982. A new type of surveillance radar, designed to give air traffic controllers (ATC) a clearer picture of airport surface traffic, is installed at the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) experimental centre at Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Cardion Electronics-built radar will be installed at more than 30 airports in the US if the tests are successful n n u u U u Avionics De Vore begins PLASI production DE VORE Aviation has begun pro duction of a new type of visual approach system—Pulse Light Ap proach Slope Indicator (PLASI), which guides pilots during landing. De Vore's PLASI comprises a single box, unlike a traditional Visual Approach Slope Indicator (VASI). When a pilot is on the glideslope he sees a steady white light broken by a green pulse every lOsec. A pilot above the glideslope would see a pulsing white light, while one below would see a pulsing red light. In both instances the pulse rate depends on the amount of deviation from the glideslope. First application of De Vore's PLASI is La Carlotta Airport at Caracas, Venezuela, where pilots said that they liked it better than the VASI. De Vore says that La Carlotta now uses PLASI instead of VASI. Marconi Avionics to build Northrop rate gyros MARCONI Avionics of Rochester is to build integrating rate gyroscopes under licence from US company Northrop. The gyroscopes are for direct sale to most European countries that belong to Nato. Marconi Avionics has been using Northrop-built gyro scopes in control and guidance sys tems for some time—one example being a strapdown arrangement for the Sting Ray torpedo. The licence- building agreement for G1-G6 gyro scopes and AD-G6 accelerometers extends the Marconi Avionics Gyro Division range of products, which already includes Northrop's GR-H4 spring-restained gyroscope. Northrop claims to have captured two-thirds of the US market with its integrating rate gyroscope. The com pany has sold more than 25,000 of the gyroscopes to date and applica tions include aircraft, missiles and satellites. Pulses... E-Systems has received a $10-1 mil lion contract for the production of tracking systems for the US Navy's Terrier extended range standard missile.
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