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FLIGHT International, 3 January 1981 31 Ferranti delivers first Jaguar nav/attack system FERRANTI has delivered the first FIN 1064 digital inertial nav/attack system to Warton. FIN 1064 is intended to replace the Marconi 'Navwass in the RAF's Jaguars, but first it will be subjected to dynamic tests and flight- tests at Warton. The pilot's control and display unit is mounted in the cockpit coaming for ease of headup operation and there is 1 '• I i ' 'I ? ' ! 881 i^A KJW* Sf§*j SRSPSR a separate control unit for switch-on and test. This control unit displays failures when they occur. The rest of the system—computer, inertial plat form and power supply—is in one line- replaceable unit (LRU) mounted in the fuselage. Ferranti says that the LRU replaces five boxes in the earlier, analogue Navwass, reducing volume by two-thirds and weight by 50kg. The FIN 1064 uses data from all the other weapon-aiming and navigation systems in the aircraft and it displays navigation and steering commands on the headup display (Hud). The built- in test equipment checks all the in puts from other units like the Tacan and Hud as well as checking the FIN 1064. Ibis makes failure easier to identify and remedy. Other advances claimed for the FIN 1064 over the Navwass include reduced alignment times for the gyros, improved ac curacy and a large computer memory. The pilot's control and display unit (Left) for the Ferranti FIN 1064 Jaguar navjattack system is mounted in the coaming so that the pilot can operate it headup. The control and test unit (Right) incorporates a display giving system failure information E-Systems and Germany's Atlantics E-SYSTEMS has received a $44 million contract to update the West German Navy's Atlantics. The improvements will be to the electronic systems on the Atlantic, as well as to ground stations and associated computer pro grams. E-Systems installed the initial Atlantic mission electronics in 1971. • Boeing has taken a $60 million op tion with E-Systems on the retrofit of a third E-4A Advanced Airborne Com mand Post (AABNCP) to E-4B stan dard. E-Systems already has contracts for the first two conversions, which are scheduled for delivery in Novem ber 1981 and July 1963. The Bell 222 now in service with London's Metropolitan Police has a Racal-Oecca tactical air navigation system (Tans) fitted in a prominent position to the left of the centre console. The aircraft's position is displayed as latitude/longitude, Decca co-ordinates, a grid reference or a bearing and distance to a selected waypoint. When the pilot keys in a required destination, he is given a heading and the distance and time to go. Also fitted is a portable Decca automatic chart display which indicates the helicopter's position on a standard map with a cross-wire marker More Singer-Link B-52 simulator orders SINGER-LINK has received a US Air Force contract converting two options on B-52G weapons system trainers to firm orders. The USAF placed an in itial order for two trainers together with options on 14 after a fly-off com petition (Flight, August 9, 1980). The latest order is worth $77 • 8 million and includes the development of an offen sive station mission trainer comprising four simulated B-52 offensive stations. In addition, Singer-Link is to develop a software support centre for the pro gramme. Pulses... Sanders Associates is to supply graphic instructor displays to Hughes for the US Navy's F/A-18 weapons tactics trainers in a con tract worth over $300,000. The dis plays will give the instructor a I three-dimensional view of the students' dogfights in the simula tor. Ferranti has completed delivery of a sensor simulator for the Royal Australian Air Force's Orion mari time patrol aircraft. The last com ponent of the £1 • 25 million simu lator, the acoustic sensor part, has just been delivered, the radar and the electronic surveillance com ponents having been delivered a year ago. Frost & Sullivan estimates the European military and aviation dis play market for the 1980s at $2,100 million. Airborne displays are esti mated at $1,000 million of this, with surface-based night-vision sys tems accounting for a further $500 million. The rest of the market comprises displays for applications like air traffic control and fire con trol. KLM, Arinc and Teledyne Controls are to conduct an operational evaluation of VHF air-ground data link for airline use. Cable & Wireless is to fit its speech processing and control equipment (Space) at Seeb Airport. Space is a radio and telephone switching sys tem designed for air traffic control.
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