INPUT 1977

Setting the scene for 1977:

• A Swedish airliner crashes into a residential area of Stockholm, killing all 22 on board;
• Death penalty is re-introduced in the USA;
• Australia's worst railway disaster leaves 83 people dead near Granville;
• Snow falls in Miami, the only time in recorded history;
• Jimmy Carter becomes the 39th president of the USA;
• The test Space Shuttle Enterprise makes its maiden flight on top of a modified B747;
• The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake kills 1,500;
• A collision between KLM and PanAm Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583;
• The Red Army Faction shoots German prosecutor Buback and his driver in Karlsruhe;
• Moluccan train and school hostage crisis in the Netherlands;
• First Apple II computers go on sale;
• IL-62 crash in Cuba kills 69 people;
• First democratic elections in Spain after 41 years of dictatorship of General Franco;
• New York city suffers a 25hr blackout;
• Tandy announces the TRS-80 Model I computer;
• Elvis Presley dies;
• Lufthansa flight 181 is hijacked by Palestinians demanding the release of 11 RAF members;
• Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a charter plane crash;
• Atari 2600 game system is released;
• British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service;
• First nodes of ARPAnet are connected; it would later evolve into the Internet;
• Malaysia B737 is hijacked and crashes, killing all 100 people on board;

1977 - Issue 1 Output-Editorial Intercom-Letters From the President Carnaval - What Alaaf What was that Calsign Again? Area Control - Who Needs It? That Meteor .... Adsel - The Major Development in Air Traffic Control The Adventures of Roger Wilco Action (1) Visit to Fokker Eurocontrol Route Charges System -The Facts and the Fiction B.P.C. Say Again Your Type On Our Behalf Action (2)Food for Throught? The Fleet Air Arm Museum Internal Affairs IFATCA News Guild News

1977 - Issue 2

• OUTPUT - Editorial
• INTERCOM - Letters
• The European Controllers Cup
• Action ....
• .... And Reaction
• Say Again Your Type
• Towards 2000
• Bulgaria - Land of wine and schweppes
• Roger Wilco
• CARDS at Boscombe Down
• IFATCA Conference 1977
• Emergency - What Happens Now?
• The J.Y. Prog.
• What was that callsign again?
• Time Out
• Belgium's flying rescue service
• Internal Affairs