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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
The following paper was presented at an Ordinary Meeting of the Institute held in London on 21 March 1979 with Mr S. S. D. Jones in the Chair.
This paper is not so much a forecast of future navigation systems as a personal view of the philosophy of the increased use of micro-processors. Digital computers were first introduced into airborne systems in the late 1950s to meet the demands of new sensors such as inertial navigators and star trackers for which analog computation methods proved inadequate and inaccurate, but their cost restricted their application to specialized high accuracy systems.