New Air Traffic Control headquarters at Swanwick near Southampton Hampshire England UK - unused for months after it was supposed to be in action, although it had cost a fortune. Constant problems with the new computer system were to blame. The £623m air traffic control centre is now one of the busiest and most complex in the world. It finally opened in January 2002 - six years overdue. It controls 200,000 sq miles of air space, from an operation room covering 2,000 sq metres. Its computer system was tested for 650,000 hours before launch, and has more than two million lines of software code -
New Air Traffic Control headquarters at Swanwick near Southampton Hampshire England UK - unused for months after it was supposed to be in action, although it had cost a fortune. Constant problems with the new computer system were to blame. The £623m air traffic control centre is now one of the busiest and most complex in the world. It finally opened in January 2002 - six years overdue. It controls 200,000 sq miles of air space, from an operation room covering 2,000 sq metres. Its computer system was tested for 650,000 hours before launch, and has more than two million lines of software code - one of the most sophisticated IT projects in the country. 17 February 1998 Picture by Roger Bamber
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