Though low-level wind shears do not occur as frequently in Europe as they do in the Great Plains thunderstorms of the US, RAE has established a climatology of wind shear for 70 airports around the world. This climatology is based on well over 10,000 British Airways B747 flight recorder data landings. Britain Encourages Flexible Manufacturing Systems . The British Government recently undertook an important new initiative to improve manufacturing productivity. Flexible manufacturing is defined as a comprehensive manufacturing system for batch work in which a central on-line computer controls automatically the machine tools and other work stations, transfer of components and tooling, and provides complete monitoring and control information.
Full automation is possible even when producing small numbers of a wide variety of products.
The Government's FMS scheme makes available two types of support. Leading European vision scientists will present current research findings in motion perception, psychophysics, spatial vision and spatial-temporal aspects of visual perception. In addition, papers will be presented related to cortical and sub-cortical physiology, color vision, eye movements, illusions, brightness, and stereopsis. The major intention of the conference is to bring together visual scientists ranging from psychophysicists to electrophysiologists interested in visual perception in man and higher vertebrates. USAF vision scientists will participate in the conference.