Artifact Details

Description

B&W image of a pilot standing beside a fiter jet with a compartment door open to show the airborne computer.
Verso paper sticker: " Hughes Aircraft Company - Digitair Airborne Digital Computer
Credit:: Hughes Aircraft Compoany
Source: DAVA Still Photo. Depos.{"

Metadata: "Copied 16 April 1958 from print rec'd from SAF-IS-FE. Used in March-April issue of "The Airman Magszine:
Also filed - Electronics - Radar-Airborne - Digital computer.

158811 A.C. Hughes Aircraft Company has perfected a maniaturized airborne digital computer, which can fly a jet interceptor through all phases of supersonic combat, from take-off to touchdown. DIgitair, the trade name for the electronic marvel, works with coded information flashed to it by ground control stations and the aircraft's own radar system and performs or monitors such operations as actuating the aircraft's control surfaces to correct pitch and roll; commanding the pilot to regulate his speed; maintaining a constant check on available fuel and the distance the plan can fly under existing conditions; and providing the pilot with information on target range, azimuth, and elevation. It also supplies a method whereby the pilot can maintain a constant check on his accuracy and reliablility. Shown is the Digitair installed in the Consolidated-Vultee F-102 Delta Dagger."

Publisher

Huges Aircraft Company

Identifying Numbers

Other number	#1245	Verso pencil
Other number	158811	Verso pencil crossed out

Dimensions

overall: 10 in x 8 in

Category

Photograph

Credit

Courtesy of Gwen Bell

Lot Number

X7413.2015