Jane's Avionics 1982-83
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Hardcover ( square back binding ) |
| Condition | Used good |
| Language | English |
| Size | 21 x 33 x 5 cm |
| Editor | Harper Collins Publishers |
Description
There could hardly be a more propitious time to launch a book on aviation electronics. Technology just budding in the early 1970s is coming into full flower, with developments in some areas progressing so fast that the challenge is how to introduce them in the most beneficial way. With such advances in micro-electronics, information processing and displays, the stage has now for the first time been reached that virtually any demand can be met technically. Whether the technology on offer is bought depends on other and more subjective things such as funds available, economic trade-off, industrial agreements, and perhaps nowadays even trades union pressure. In the military field the technology revolution has matured in such advanced aircraft as the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet multipurpose fighter and Europe's tri-national Tornado bomber, both just now going into service; Dassault's Mirage 2000 fighter, in which the delta-wing formula long since dismissed by other manufacturers is being given a new lease of life by the marriage of electronics and aerodynamics; and the General Dynamics F-16 fighter, blooded by the Israeli Air Force in its June 1981 attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor at...