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With access to air traffic control facilities around Britain, shows how such operations function and compares these methods and levels of safety with those used in the USA.
Events include the end of Petain’s trial; the clearing of the River Rhine; the signing of the charter setting up the War Crimes Tribunal; the English aviation industry; the return of German POWs from...
Footage from British Movietone newsreels. Shows ‘Concorde’ on its inaugural flight from London to New York, the Red Arrows, the Graf Zeppelin. Also show the Vickers ‘Viscount’, de Havilland...
Behind the scenes of air traffic control in NewYork, the world’s busiest airspace. There’s a dramatic rise in the number of near misses, is this due to the sheer volume of traffic? Near-misses are...
PhD student Luke Carter, of the School of Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham, presents this video which introduces his research into the effects of selective laser melting fabrication...
Looks at the way in which British Airways use computers for seat reservations. Animations show how files are structured with a hierarchy of indexes to allow fast access to static information about flights....
Examines on the interface between computer systems and the people who use them, looking at a project to update the air traffic control system in the US as an example. Although air traffic control uses an...
The Airbus A320 is the first ‘fly-by-wire’ civil airliner. It crushed twice during its first two-and-a-half years in service. In both cases there was speculation that the plane’s computer software may...
Looks at the development of the Stealth aircraft from the SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest military aircraft ever, to future projects such as the F-22 Raptor and the Joint Strike Fighter. Shows footage of the...
Shows the production facilities throughout Europe of the member companies of the sponsor. Components of the Airbus are shown under construction up to delivery of the first fuselage to the Toulouse production...
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