An automatic landing system has been developed by Messrs. Smiths (Aviation Division) in conjunction with the aircraft companies concerned for the Mk. 2 V-Bombers and Argosy aircraft of the Royal Air Force. Automatic landing systems for civil operations are being developed for the Trident, again by Messrs. Smiths with Hawker Siddeley, and for the VC10 by Messrs. Elliott Brothers with the British Aircraft Corporation. It is planned to begin using these civil systems on commercial passenger flights to suitably equipped airports in 1967. But at that stage they will only be used in conditions of adequate visibility.

By 1969, we should have built up enough experience to undertake blind landing on passenger flights. A similar system will be installed in Belfast transport aircraft for the R.A.F. All these systems are based on work carried out by the Ministry of Aviation Blind Landing Experimental Unit at R.A.E., Bedford.