It also depends how far you want to go with the presentation and what direction you want to take it.
For PC based software you could look at maintenance aids such as the RAF’s LITS system which is a glorified data management system.
Sticking with maintenance (you know me…) you could investigate the use of computers in aircraft based diagnostics – on board maintenance systems on an A310 will tell you which cabin bulbs need changing – all at the press of a button (or ten)
For aircraft systems in the past, you could go towards the previously mentioned mechanical computers from WW2 onwards.
You could look at autoland systems where the computer assesses the data it is given by the flight control systems and compares it to known data for the airport and what is given by airport based systems – think Trident.
You could look at modern civil aviation with the ARINC series of Data busses – Airbus fly by wire, or even look towards the future with Boscome Down’s experiments with Fly by Light….
Just a thought -in the modern aircraft maintenance hangar, there are no paper copies of maintenance manuals – everything is done with CD ROMs and internet links. Paperwork is getting more and more PC based – even the old RAF form 731 (serviceable/unserviceable labels for removed components) had a barcode – and that was 10 years ago!
You need to quantify what you want to present, simply because ‘IT in aviation’ is a monstrous subject.
If you need any help with it, just drop me a line and pop up to the academy (old Gill hangar)
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