INPUT 1983

Setting the scene for 1983:

• Release of the Apple Lisa personal computer by Apple Inc.
• Björn Borg retires from tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.
• Lotus 1-2-3 is released for IBM-PC-compatible computers.
• IBM releases the IBM PC XT.
• The Transmitter Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany, is demolished.
• President Reagan launches a proposal to intercept missiles, also known as 'Star Wars'
• Michael Jackson 'moonwalks' for the first time in public.
• Space Shuttle Challenger astronauts Story Musgrave and Donald H. Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk
• Gandhi wins best picture oscar.
• The first Disney park outside the USA opens in Tokyo.
• The U.S Embassy is bombed in Beirut, killing 63 people.
• Stern magazine publishes the "Hitler Diaries" (later found to be forgeries).
• Pioneer 10 becomes the first man made object to leave the solar system.
• Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
• The Nintendo Entertainment System goes on sale in Japan.
• The lowest temperature on earth was recorded in Vostok Station, Antarctica with -89.2 °C.
• Australian Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation in a helicopter.
• Space Shuttle Challenger carries Guion S. Bluford, the first African-American astronaut, into space.
• Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed.
• Gulf Air Flight 771 crashes in the United Arab Emirates after a bomb exploded in the baggage compartment, killing 117.
• 38 Irish republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of HMP Maze.
• Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
• Hooters opens up in Clearwater, Florida.
• Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French and the United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 US servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.
• Microsoft Word is first released.
• Avianca Flight 11 crashes near Barajas Airport of Madrid, Spain killing 181 of the 192 on board.

	1983 - Issue 1 Output President's Aessaye - Reflections on Past and Future Provincetown-Boston Airline Future Flanning for ATC in the USA Legal Responsibilities of ATC "Recipe for Refreshment" The Moroccan Situation Golden Flight Level 1983
	1983 - Issue 2 Output An Impression of 'Reims UAC German Pilots' Association Visits Maastricht UAC An Automated Air Traffic Control System for Jugoslavia "Split Personalities" IFATCA ' 83 Maastricht Airport 1990 "Finding a Cure" Rescue Operations via Satellite History, Development and Operation of Modern Profile Computers
	1983 - Issue 3 Korean Airlines Flight 007; An Air Traffic Controller Comments The Warsaw Air Traffic Control Centre European Charter Group Delays Data Bank Decision American Airlines Flight Training Centre Hiring and Firing Technical Committee Column Le Bourget Air Show 1983 Human Relations in ATC ECC '83 Vienna Innovations in the United States Air Traffic Control System
	1983 - Issue 4 Output President's Message Sint-Truiden Airbase On a wing and a prayer Convex '83 - Part I: Schedule Planning and Operating Costs Part II: Some other aspects by Jan Gordts Hamilton Standard Stork - A Revelation Greek Air Traffic Controllers; Problems and Wishes Iceland 1983 9th Western European Regional Meeting; Athens - Greece The Committee of European Airspace Co-ordination