Honeywell Technology Helps Pilots Avoid Runway Overruns at Today's Increasingly Crowded Airports
Software Upgrade to Existing Honeywell Safety Equipment Available in 2009 Runway Excursions Represent 96% of Total Runway-related Accidents NBAA ORLANDO, Oct. 4, 2008 - Honeywell announced today that it has developed a software upgrade to its Runway Awareness and Advisory System that will alert pilots if their approach to an airport is not within a safe tolerance envelope of speed and glide path....
Read More »Performance Technologies Building Components for Ground-Based Regional Augmentation System (GRAS) for Airservices Australia
Project Includes Work with Honeywell Aerospace ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 3 -- Performance Technologies (NASDAQ:PTIX), a leading developer of communication platforms and systems, today announced that it is working with Honeywell Precision Landing Systems in support of the Ground-based Regional Augmentation System (GRAS). This system is currently being developed by Honeywell for Airservices Australia...
Read More »Airborne Systems and ILC Dover Team on Advanced Airbag Landing and Flotation System for Orion Vehicle
Combined efforts focus on optimal design solution for land and water landings FREDERICA, Del., Jan. 30 / / -- Airborne Systems North America (ASNA) and ILC Dover LP have signed an agreement to work together on the Orion airbag landing and floatation system. A new study initiated by NASA is underway for a singular landing system that works for land and water landings and protects the Astronauts in...
Read More »BAE Systems Completes First Test of Autonomous Landing System
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California - BAE Systems completed the first test of an autonomous landing system intended for large mobility and transport aircraft. The test demonstrated the system's ability to enhance pilot vision in a simulated zero-visibility landing scenario. The demonstration of the Autonomous Approach and Landing Capability (AALC) system took place at the Air Force Flight Test...
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Read More »QinetiQ Successfully Demonstrates Day Night All Environment Visibility Solution for Helicopter Pilots
Sea King Mk IV-X used by QinetiQ during HawkOwl trial Helicopters can now be flown and landed in poor visibility conditions QinetiQ has developed and successfully flight trialled a Day Night All Environment (DNAE) visibility solution that provides helicopter pilots with alternative, complementary sources of imaging information, enabling them to fly safely in low light or adverse weather...
Read More »API Nanotronics Receives Order from Major U.S. Defense Contractor
Total Potential Value of Contract Could Exceed $3.8 Million API Nanotronics Corp. (OTCBB: APIO) ( API ) (the Company ), a leading supplier of electronic components and nanotechnology research and development to the defense and communications sectors, announced today that its TM Systems division received a contract extension from a long standing defense customer. The contract includes an option...
Read More »F135 Team Delivers F135 STOVL Propulsion System to Lockheed Martin
EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 28 / -- Pratt & Whitney has delivered the first F135 short-takeoff/vertical-landing (STOVL) propulsion system including the Rolls-Royce Lift System to Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas. The propulsion system will support airframe and engine interface evaluations for the first STOVL flight test aircraft, scheduled for its initial flight in May 2008. Pratt & Whitney is...
Read More »Northrop Grumman Provides Airport Ground Station for First Satellite-Based Landing System
LONDON, November 21 Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), through its Europe-based subsidiary, Park Air Systems, has developed and installed the ground-based elements of the world's only certified global navigation satellite system for precision approach and landing installed at Bronnoysund Airport, Norway. The inaugural flight using the new landing system was an Avinor charter service from...
Read More »Mercury Computer Systems' Synthetic Vision Display to Enable Helicopter Pilots to See Surroundings in Zero-Visibility Conditions
CHELMSFORD, Mass. - September 24, 2007 - Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) announced that it was selected by BAE Systems to provide a Synthetic Vision display for a rotorcraft brownout landing system. This is the second contract award from BAE Systems for Mercury to provide VistaNav(TM) Synthetic Vision technology for a brownout landing system. The first award, from BAE Systems...
Read More »Mercury Computer Systems Awarded Contract by BAE Systems Australia
Mercury Computer Systems announced that it was awarded a contract by BAE Systems Australia to provide a Synthetic Vision display, for the development of a rotorcraft brownout landing system. Mercury has developed a patent-pending Morphing Terrain Engine that incorporates terrain sensor measurements that are captured and updated in real time via a standard interface, and displayed with Synthetic...
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Ensure Safety, Reliability in Your Cement Plant with Aerzen Blowers and Compressors
Aerzen offers blowers and compressors for challenging cement applications such as pneumatic conveying from raw mill to raw meal silos, combustion air, cement silos fluidization, and more. At Aerzen, safety is our top priority. Check out our video to learn more.
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