In the midst of preparing an online version of Electronics Weekly's very first issue fifty years ago, in September, we spotted a half-page feature on the 1960 Hampshire show...
View Electronics Weekly's 1960 Farnborough Show coverage
The main section headline is 'Reliability is electronics trend at Farnborough show'. The first story is about Marconi navigation equipment, and the second about bombs and missiles.
Under the headline "New safety systems for aircraft - Transistor
techniques used in navaids and radars", the article begins:
Greater safety in the air is accented by the electronic exhibits at the SBAC Farnborough Air Show which opened on Monday. More reliable equipment, leading to overall system safety, receives greater emphasis than ever.Read the full article >>
In airborne equipment the almost universal adoption of the transistor has increased reliability enormously with no loss of efficiency and has also effected considerable economy in weight and size of "black boxes," at the same time lessening the problem of heat dissipation.
