Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces the National AeroSpace Training and Research Center (NASTAR Center)
SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., March 8 / -- Environmental Tectonics Corporation (AMEX:ETC) ("ETC" or the "Company") today announced the construction of ETC's National AeroSpace Training and Research Center (NASTAR Center).
On November 14, 2005 ETC announced construction of the Tactical Flight Simulation and Aviation Training and Research Center. ETC has expanded the Center's capabilities to include Space Tourist and Traveler training. The Center has been renamed the National AeroSpace Training and Research Center (NASTAR Center). The Center will open in January 2007 and will offer a complete range of aviation training and research support as well as Space training services. ETC's National AeroSpace Training and Research Center (NASTAR Center) will provide world-class aviation training and research support for military and civil aviation and space travel / tourism.
NASTAR Center offers state-of-the-art equipment and professional instructors to train military and commercial pilots and crews how to cope with the effects of:
o Tactical Flight Operations (military air crews)
o High G Exposure (military fighter and aerobatic pilots)
o Altitude Exposure
o Spatial Disorientation
o Aircraft Upsets and Recoveries
o Night Vision and Night Vision Goggle Operations (military and paramilitary aircrew)
o Loss of Situational Awareness
NASTAR Center offers state-of-the-art equipment and professional instructors to train space travelers how to cope with the effects of:
o Sustained Elevated G Exposure
o Altitude Exposure
o Spatial Disorientation
Unlike air travel today, space travelers / tourists will need to be physiologically screened and will further need specialized training to help them cope with the physiological stress that they will encounter.
The NASTAR Center will house state-of-the-art aerospace training and research equipment including:
o ATFS-400 Authentic Tactical Flight Simulator
o GYROLAB GL-2000 Advanced Spatial Disorientation Trainer
o Hypobaric Chamber
o Night Vision and Night Vision Goggle Training System
For more than 37 years, ETC's pioneering technologies have created training solutions for the most rigorous stresses encountered during high- performance aircraft flight including effects of altitude exposure, High G exposure, spatial disorientation, and escape from a disabled aircraft. This experience uniquely qualifies ETC to provide solutions for travel into the next frontier ... space.
According to William F. Mitchell, ETC's President and CEO, "There is a pressing need evolving in the US due to the 2006 Base Realignment and Closure recommendations and the reality of commercial space travel. The $25 million NASTAR Center will be one of only two Centers in the world that commercially offer aerospace training of this nature and the only such Center in the USA."
CONTACT: Duane D. Deaner, CFO of Environmental Tectonics, 215-355-9100,
ext.1203, fax 215-357-4000 or email: ddeaner@etcusa.comhttp://www.etcusa.com/
Source: Environmental Tectonics Corporation
CONTACT: Duane D. Deaner, CFO of Environmental Tectonics,
+1-215-355-9100, ext.1203, fax +1-215-357-4000 or email: ddeaner@etcusa.com
Web site: http://www.etcusa.com/
