When you talk Call Recording today most people immediately think 'oh yes call centres - training purposes etc, etc' well it wasn't always like that and the Monitor's News Hound salutes the founding father of call recording the 'Air Traffic Control' services. Yes siree these systems were the forerunners of all the kit we use today and even now they set the standards for the reliability and excellence we have come to depend upon. Business Systems have been supplying and servicing air traffic control recorders for umpteen years and feel it's about time that we featured their services in our history slot, so here are some photos from our archives and a competition for all would be aviation buffs - 'Name That Airport'.
As a warm up see if you can guess the location of the airport in Picture 'A' it shows a bank of recorders which at first glance appear to be Philips VLS 44 recorders but on closer inspection the trained eye can determine they are the rarer VLS 33's, the give away being the 8 ¼ inch spools rather than smaller 8 inch spools as used on the 44's, well done if you spotted that one.
The real test (there's a bottle of champagne for the person who gets this right) is Picture 'B' - can you name this airport? There are 2 good clues here, we believe the third aircraft on the left is a Lockheed Super Constellation and the second aircraft on the right is a Douglas DC4. If you now think of the airlines that would have bought this make of airliner and coordinate them with the routes they would have flown circa 1957, then the answer is a breeze.
 
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