Re: Another Airbus down ....

Brian Reay wrote:
> "Dave" <davenpat@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
> news:qMWdnaIWMatv6tfXnZ2dnUVZ8lNi4p2d@bt.com...
>  >
>> Did you ever fly on that old bird called the Trident? It was supposed to
>> be capable of take off and landing in any conditions. What happened to
>> that idea?
>
> Was that a "first" for the Trident?

I'm not too sure, but I think it was. This was in my early days of
aerospace when I joined what was known as Avroe's of Manchester. The
company name was Hawker Siddely, but the local factory was always called
Avroe's, after the famouse Lancaster it had spawned and built  :-)

My only recolection of the Trident systems was from the company house
magazine.

> I'm pretty sure the Trident also had an
> early moving map display. I think it was a Smiths design as I learned of it
> long after, mid 80s, when some from a Smiths engineer was giving a potted
> history of such maps in relation to something called SNAPS, a ship based
> system of similar concept but "a bit" larger (a SNAPS table was the size
of
> a big desk!). Both moved a "pointer" over a paper map. Already out of
date
> in the 80s, by which time the first digital maps were coming on line in RAF
> aircraft and could have been adapted to ships- although memory cost would
> have been an issue at first.

I know nothing about that, as it was before I became aware of aircraft
systems. I only became aware of those when I moved to British Aerospace,
as it had become known as then, at Warton aerodrome, in 1978.
You could well have been right, but I think the Trident got sunk for
other reasons.

Dave
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