Flyable TRADIC: the first airborne transistorized digital computer

The article describes the Flyable TRADIC research project from inception through flight test. It includes technical descriptions of the design as well as the author's personal recollections of those early days of stored program control. This work was done while the author was with Bell Telephone Laboratories, which at that time was the research and development arm of AT&T and now is the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies.