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Southampton, PA: January 21, 2004. Environmental Tectonics Corporation (Amex: ETC) ("ETC", the "Company") announced today the recent sale of a GAT-IIŽ General Aviation Trainer to the Federal Aviation Administration, Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI), Oklahoma City, OK.
CAMI is the medical certification, research, and education wing of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Aerospace Medicine at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City. Their overall mission is aviation safety. CAMI studies the factors that influence human performance in the aviation environment, finds ways to understand them, and then communicates that understanding to the aviation community. According to Dr. Melchor J. Antuņano, Director of CAMI, the FAA will use the GAT-IIŽ to provide pilots with training in the hazards associated with spatial disorientation during flight. Spatial Disorientation training emphasizes the various physiological hazards that pilots could experience during actual flight maneuvers. FAA statistics show that when spatial disorientation is involved in a mishap, nine out of ten of those mishaps are fatal. The CAMI's GAT-II is equipped with fourteen of the most common General Aviation Spatial Disorientation Illusions. According to Glenn King, ETC's Aircrew Training Systems Applications Manager, "The FAA CAMI GAT-II is the most technologically advanced trainer available for Spatial Disorientation training. It is equipped with a specialized Profile Editor, which gives the CAMI operators the capability to develop other spatial disorientation illusions, in addition to specialized training flights". The GAT-IIŽ General Aviation Trainer is available in single engine, multi-engine, helicopter and regional jet versions. Each GAT-IIŽ supports VFR, IFR, spatial disorientation, and mishap prevention training. The motion platform provides roll, pitch, and yaw motions in response to pilot input. The visual display provides a photo-realistic terrain database and accurate modeling of major cities and terrain features. The list of impressive features also includes selectable meteorological conditions, instructor selectable malfunctions, various map views, and contains all FAA listed airports and navigational aids. ETC also designs, develops, installs and maintains aircrew training systems, process simulation systems (sterilization and environmental), clinical hyperbaric systems, environmental testing and simulation systems, public entertainment systems and related products for domestic and international customers. This press release may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about the Company that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any other future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may", "will", "should", "could", "would", "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "continue", or the negative of such terms or similar expressions. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a discrepancy include, but are not limited to, contract cancellations, failure to obtain new contracts, political unrest in customer countries, unfavorable results in litigation, general economic conditions, and those issues identified from time to time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and other public documents, including without limitation, our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 28, 2003. |
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