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THIS exhibition at NEC Birmingham was comprehensive in scope and showed a range of products and ideas contributing to the efficient running of a large passenger and cargo organisation. Displayed by Plessey Radar was their prototype electronic flight strip demonstrator on a high resolution colour graphics workstation. Its software produces the full colour emulation of the current paper flight progress strips in use at the London Air Traffic Control Centre (LATCC). This demonstrator employs a man‐machine interface which provides full flight strip manipulation and editing facilities and integrates the data on to large 20 inch square, high resolution radar displays. The latter is undertaken by the use of ‘windows’ in the display screen through which essential data such as weather, communications and electronic flight strip information may be shown. These supplementary information windows are easily selected by the operator when needed or could be forced through by automated systems if immediate controller action were required.