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SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., August 2, 2004. Environmental Tectonics Corporation (AMEX: ETC) (the "Company") today announced that it has applied for a Japanese patent on the GYROLAB technology. This patent application covers the enabling technologies, including motion and motion control, for this device to deliver high-quality Spatial Disorientation training to high performance jet pilots and for entertainment applications. The GYROLAB combines the latest available flight simulation technology, including simultaneous ± 360 degree motion in pitch, roll yaw and planetary; real-world out-the-window visuals, realistic engine and flight sounds, detailed cockpit with closed loop flight controls and high fidelity flight models. Force feedback control loading is included to provide the pilot with the most realistic flight experience short of actually flying the aircraft. The GYROLAB's ± 360-degree motion capability and its planetary motion, which gives it the capability to generate up to 3.0 Gs, make it the most realistic and effective flight trainer available today. Since all axes of motion can be used simultaneously, the GYROLAB can accurately reproduce the motion cues that cause pilots to mistake their aircraft position and motion with respect to the earth's surface. This error is called spatial disorientation, and it costs many pilot lives and accounts for approximately 1/3 of all military aircraft accidents worldwide. The GYROLAB includes more than 20 fixed-wing training profiles and eight helicopter profiles that are flight-realistic and fully automated. These training profiles provide pilots with the means to recognize and avoid - or successfully recover from - spatial disorientation. ETC's proprietary Interactive Profile Editor allows pilot instructors to create their own training profiles, thereby making the GYROLAB a trainer that can keep pace with changing training requirements throughout its life cycle. Converting the GYROLAB from its fixed-wing configuration to a helicopter configuration can be achieved in less than five minutes. ETC's exclusive technology is proven and recognized around the world as the only product that is able to accurately and repeatedly reproduce actual flight motion cues. ETC's unique knowledge of human physiological responses to motion and visual stimulations, combined with our motion control and design expertise, has resulted in ETC becoming a world leader in aeromedical simulation and training. William F. Mitchell, ETC's President and Chairman, noted that, " ETC expects that the Japanese market for GYROLAB will expand in the near future as the economy of Japan rebounds. In order to serve this market and to provide immediate after-sales service of fielded products, we have opened a North Asia Sales office near Tokyo." ETC designs, develops, installs and maintains aircrew training systems, public entertainment systems, process simulation systems, (sterilization and environmental), clinical hyperbaric systems, environmental testing and simulation systems, and related products for domestic and international customers. This press release may include certain 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", "could", "would", "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "continue", or the negative of such terms or similar expressions. Factors that may 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 27, 2004. |
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