Word: onboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each aircraft equipped with CAS is, in effect, shielded by a huge protective electronic bubble. When one plane's bubble brushes another's, it triggers successive alarms in both cockpits. The first comes 42 seconds before the moment of collision as calculated by the CAS's onboard computers. If the planes are still headed toward each other at 30 seconds, a flashing red light warns the pilots to prepare for evasive action. Five seconds later, the computers issue their final command. Depending on the relative positions of their planes, one pilot may be ordered to climb...
...their fuel so efficiently that they had enough left to make a final and unscheduled rendezvous with the Agena. At reentry, Conrad and Gordon were relieved of their duties by a new, automatic re-entry system that the astronauts sarcastically call "the chimp mode." Controlled by Gemini's onboard computer, it fired the spacecraft's thrusters at the proper time to correct its attitude and direction. Its value was evident. For it guided the relaxed astronauts to a splashdown closer to the recovery carrier than ever before in the U.S. manned spaceflight program...
...years, companies have been working toward onboard warning systems to prevent mid-air collisions, which are often the result of visual illusions that lead pilots astray. Last month the Air Transport Association announced that development of a practical, economical device is "now closer to realization than at any time in the past." The promising system is McDonnell Aircraft's "Eros" (for Eliminate Range System), which will beep a warning to pilots when two planes get on a collision course. It will also instruct pilots-by means of arrows on the instrument panel -which way to turn to avoid trouble...