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Southampton, PA-November 30, 2004- Environmental Tectonics Corporation (AMEX:ETC) ("ETC" or the "Company") today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Entertainment Technology Corporation (EnTCo), has received two awards, Best New Product and Best Exhibit, at the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) Convention recently held in Orlando, Florida from November 15th to November 20th. The IAAPA Convention is the world's largest convention of its kind for Amusement Parks, Family Entertainment Centers, Zoos/Aquariums and Museums with roughly 1,200 exhibitors this year. Further information about the Awards can be found at http://www.iaapaorlando.com/prorlBestExh.htm
The Best New Product Award was granted to EnTCo for Wild Earth™, the interactive Photo Safari simulator ride. All entries were judged on the benefit of the product to the prospective buyer, the originality or uniqueness of the product, and the quality of the product's design and construction. In Wild Earth™, guests discover the thrill and excitement of an African Photo Safari experience and marvel at the array of wildlife and rich landscapes of the Serengeti. In Wild Earth™, the riders are in full control, navigating the vehicle through the stunning landscapes of Africa on a quest for that "perfect picture". Based on the award-winning game title of the same name by Super X Studios, Wild Earth™ features unparalleled graphics quality, non-violent educational content, groundbreaking interactivity and a potential tremendous revenue generator for operators. Future editions of Wild Earth™ will include "Deep Ocean Edition", "Prehistoric Edition" and "Rain Forest Edition". Further information on Wild Earth™ can be found at www.therideworks.com. The Best Exhibit Awards are granted for the best booth presentation in each category based on booth size. Only four such awards were granted this year, out of roughly 1,200 exhibitors. The booths were judged on originality, uniqueness, promotion of product, quality of design, and professional appearance of staff. Rob Lloyd, Creative Director of EnTCo, said "A lot of talented people in the EnTCo team worked very hard to create the Wild Earth™ attraction and it's gratifying to have that effort recognized by an organization of IAAPA's stature. We enjoy creating experiences like Wild Earth™ and it pays off when the energy EnTCo puts into development transfers to the excitement of the guests who 'volunteer' to take a ride on the wild side." EnTCo has designed and engineered a number of cutting-edge simulation attractions for major entertainment and education clients. EnTCo prides itself on providing cutting-edge, family-oriented, entertainment and education simulators to customers in the Amusement/Theme Park, Museums, Zoo/Aquarium and Family Entertainment Center markets. EnTCo has mastered both the technology necessary to deliver a unique guest experience and the science required to make it comfortable and enjoyable to a very broad audience demographic. The uniqueness of EnTCo's ride development capability resides in its in-house, creative, software development, and multi-disciplined engineering staff, complemented by its complete turnkey capabilities-from concept to construction. 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 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 27, 2004. |
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