A Virtual Talk by Ben Trethowan

The National Museum of Computing acquired the last working air traffic control system from West Drayon in 2007. Ben will describe the long process of understanding the system before it was moved to the museum and its subsequent restoration and display. Ben will also describe the current technologies and future direction for computing in air traffic control, as well as the work that NATS has done with the museum to exhibit an up-to-date controller workstation and a multi-screen simulator showing the control tower view at a variety of UK airports.

Speaker information: Ben became a volunteer at The National Museum of Computing in 2005. He was responsible for the acquisition of the last PDP11-based air traffic control system from West Drayton near London. Ben subsequently worked for Lockheed Martin and was “seconded” to projects with NATS, formerly “National Air Traffic Services”. Ben completed his Masters in Information Security in 2016, is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and Certified Ethical Hacker and now works as Information Security Manager for Square Enix.