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Dallas-Area Air Traffic Control Center Welcomes Updated Radar System.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 1999 by G. Chambers Williams III
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 11 -- DALLAS/FORT WORTH AIRPORT, Texas -- A new radar computer system at the regional air traffic control center near Dallas/Fort Worth Airport came online two weeks ago and is working flawlessly, tracking thousands of aircraft in flight over North Texas and parts of four other states, Federal Aviation Administration officials say.
The system is designed to eliminate radar outages that occurred with the FAA's older equipment and to reduce flight delays caused by radar malfunctions, the agency said.
Unlike its predecessors, the system is also "Year 2000 compliant," said Doug Murphy, air traffic manager for the FAA's Southwest Region, which is based in Fort Worth.
That means the new computer...
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