100 years of air traffic control

From a wooden hut and flags to digital towers and satellite tracking - a century of air traffic control
• UK the first in the world to introduce concept of air traffic control 100 years ago today
• First air traffic control tower was a wooden hut at Croydon Airport
• Croydon Airport was the busiest airport in the world at the time
• From a few hundred flights per year in 1920 to 2.6 million forecast for 2020
• Government forecasting 3m flights and 335m passengers a year by 2030
• Radical overhaul of air traffic management needed for the next century

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