Tridents and the Autoland system
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Haven't seen that one, but there are a couple linked in this thread from a few months back:
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...rnborough.html
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...rnborough.html
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I also recall some even older RAE film taken from a Varsity as it rumbled out of the fog for an autoland with a digital radalt bottom right going "50 -40 30-20"... - look there's a runway!!.
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FWIW...many years ago, when black and white TV was in fashion there was a TV show in the USA called: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY...it was on CBS. Either Mike Wallace or Walter Cronkite was in the cockpit of the trident as it made an autoland, the captain looking backwards at the Camera explaining what was going on.
Not sure about anything shown in the US, but there was a film made by the de Havilland film crew of a Trident autoland which featured Jimmy Phillips in the captain's seat with his back to the approaching runway, explaining to the camera what was happening.
FWIW...many years ago, when black and white TV was in fashion there was a TV show in the USA called: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY...it was on CBS. Either Mike Wallace or Walter Cronkite was in the cockpit of the trident as it made an autoland, the captain looking backwards at the Camera explaining what was going on.
Not sure about anything shown in the US, but there was a film made by the de Havilland film crew of a Trident autoland which featured Jimmy Phillips in the captain's seat with his back to the approaching runway, explaining to the camera what was happening.
Ref BOAC's post I well remember being surprised to be stopped by the traffic lights on the A15 at Waddington on a very foggy evening in 1964 or 65, and even more surprised to see a Varsity lumber out of the murk and land - until we saw the Blind Landing Experimental Unit titling. Well impressed.
