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Re: Another Airbus down ....

"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 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 Already out of date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.

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73
Brian G8OSN/W8OSN
www.g8osn.org.uk

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