Microfilm Replaces
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Technical Manuals
The BOAC division of British Air ways is to buy some $A260,000 worth of microfilm equipment to enable the airline to replace the bulky engineer ing and maintenance manuals for its fleet of VC 10, Boeing 707 and Boeing 747 aircraft.
Caps Microfilm of London are making to BOAC specifications 180 reader and reader printers for 16 mm microfilm. These will enable BOAC to replace on microfilm the 700 copies of the technical manuals held by more than 80 line stations as well as at various Heathrow Air port locations.
Although other airlines have made more extensive use of microfilm, the BOAC equipment is more techno logically advanced than any other in service. Its purchase enables BOAC to end an expensive paper revision system of the manuals.