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ETC Awarded NASA Grant for Special Research
Southampton, Pa,September 11, 2006: - Southampton, PA, September 11, 2006 - Environmental Tectonics Corporation (Amex: ETC) ("ETC" or the "Company") today announced the award of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Research Grant to investigate commercial aircraft-upsets. The dynamics of large commercial aircraft-upsets and the development of motion simulation to accurately recreate and prevent these upset situations will be the focus of this special research.

The NASA grant, valued at over $925,000.00, funds a 24 month program to integrate advanced flight simulation technologies, developed by industry, with the work being conducted by NASA under the Integrated Resilient Aircraft Controls program.

William F. Mitchell, ETC's President and Chairman, stated, "This research will enable a far greater understanding of the complex interaction between an aircraft and its crew and will lead to the introduction of new life preserving technologies and procedures."

The research will address four important tasks:
  1. Validation of centrifuge-based simulation to replicate and research upset conditions.
  2. Confirmation of centrifuge-based simulation as valid training for upset conditions.
  3. Understanding the human psychological and physiological responses to upset events.
  4. Identification and synthesis of future research and development requirements.
The ETC GYROLAB GL-2000, Advanced Spatial Disorientation Trainer, will be used extensively to support the planned research in both unmanned and manned testing.

Mr. Don Baggett, principal investigator for ETC, said, "The vast majority of commercial flight operations occur in a very restricted flight regime bounded by airspeed, pitch and bank angles all well within the normal aircraft operating envelope in which pilots are trained to operate. However, skills that are appropriate in the normal operating envelope may not be so in an upset situation where airspeed, bank and pitch angles are all vastly different. Research to understand both the aircraft and human performance in these conditions is essential to continued improvement in aviation safety and will pave the way for effective and efficient commercial aircraft training systems."



FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ETC CONTACT:
Duane D. Deaner, CFO of Environmental Tectonics
Tel: 215-355-9100, ext.1203
Fax: 215-357-4000.

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ETC also 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.

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