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Volume 38, Issue 9
1 September 1966
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| September 01 1966

Flight Control for Automatic Landing: A philosophy of the duplicate monitored system used in the VC10 and its extension to further applications Available to Purchase

A.R. Colwell
A.R. Colwell
Chief Engineer, Transport Aircraft Controls Division, Elliott Flight Automation Ltd.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1966
Aircraft Engineering (1966) 38 (9): 49–54.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb034185

DURING the past eighteen years, Elliott‐Automation Ltd. has developed and proved a concept of high‐reliability design in aviation control systems, which is now finding increasingly wide application outside the limits of its original conception.

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