Word: astrolog
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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where a computer will print out a daily report on the engine's condition. Thus Astrolog will spot engine problems be fore they become serious and will probably reduce the number of routine en gine inspections now required...
Supervising the Pilot. In Manhattan, American Airlines disclosed that Astrolog recorders would soon be installed on 20 of its BAC-111 jets. Converting electrical impulses from transducers at tached to the plane's instruments and equipment into 0-to 5-volt signals, Astrolog will record them on a tape that will be fed into a computer. From the data, the computer will define such indi cations of pilot performance as bank angles, speed in turbulence, sink rate and even use of the public-address sys tem. It will also spot any unsafe maneuvers or actions and print out "exception...
American is also installing Astrolog maintenance recorders, which the crew can switch on to take complete readings on engine-performance facts from rotor speed to fuel flow at any time during the flight. At the end of each flying day, the taped engine data will be sent over telephone wires to American's maintenance center in Tulsa, Okla...
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