This Boeing film dates to the early 1970s and explains the company’s new Electronic Attitude Director Indicator then under development. The EADI incorporated cutting edge computer technology and was an early form of “glass cockpit” technology. The EADI is a colored multifunction display flight instrument that shows pitch and roll attitude indications along with flight director commands, localizer and glide slope indications, selected airspeed, ground speed, automatic flight control system and autothrottle modes, and radio altitude and decision height. An EADI is used in conjunction with an EHSI. An electronic flight instrument that displays navigation information on a multicolor display. An EHSI — Electronic Horizontal Situation Indicator — is used in conjunction with an EADI. The information displayed on an EHSI include: magnetic track, aircraft heading, ground speed, distance to go, VOR course, wind speed and direction, ILS display, and a visual display of the flight plan.

The EADI was developed in part through work on Boeing’s Supersonic Transport or SST. The flight test program used an MD-80 outfitted with cameras that picked up ground images.

Includes shots of Boeing aircraft including the 747 and 707 models.

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