GAV-400
Marketed circa 1974, GAV-400 was a Super8 movie projectors of inflight movie entertainment.
Kenneth LiDonnici, P.E., received a BSME from The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now Polytechnic University of NYU). As a corporate staff member at Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, he was a leader in the development of the first 8 mm-magnetic-sound movie camera and projector for consumer use: the Fairchild Cinephonic. He played a similar role in the development of Olivetti's Copia line of liquid-toner photocopiers. General Audio-Visual, Inc., the company he founded in 1971, had developed numerous audiovisual devices, including the design and manufacture of the V-Star-3 airborne video projector for the Inflight Motion Pictures Corporation. He owns several patents, is a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma honorary engineering fraternities and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of New York.
"GAVI’s experience in audiovisual engineering dates back to 1971, when it obtained patents in continuous-loop 8mm magnetic-sound motion-picture projection and automatic lamp-changing devices for slide-film projection. While no longer manufacturing its pioneering automatic-lamp-changer line, GAVI’s involvement is as one of the northeast area’s most respected audio-visual systems integrators, known by architects and clients as the source for solutions to their more difficult optical-engineering problems." (Text from http://www.gavi.com/html/about.htm).
The manufacturers of inflight movies projectors were Bell & Howell, Fairchild, General Audio-Visual (GAVI), Inflight Motion Pictures and Trans Com.