News Release
Click CTRL + p to print.
| ETC Receives Contact from the Federal Aviation Administration |
| Southampton, Pa,September 28, 2006: - Environmental Tectonics Corporation (Amex: ETC) ("ETC" or the "Company") today announced the award of a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) research contract to develop ground-based simulation systems to teach pilots in-flight upset-recovery procedures. The contract, issued by the Civil Aeromedical Institute (CAMI) advances ETC's existing research program for an effective ground-based upset-recovery training system.
The sole source FAA contract, valued at over $300,000, will fund a 15 month program for continued development and training effectiveness testing of realistic upset-recovery training procedures and systems that use centrifuge based flight simulator technology. William F. Mitchell, ETC's President and Chairman, stated, "ETC is very proud to conduct this research for the FAA, the results of which will significantly enhance aviation safety worldwide." ETC will perform the research at their full service National Aerospace Training and Research Center (NASTAR Center) located in Southampton, Pennsylvania. The ETC GYROLAB GL-2000 will be used to develop and run the centrifuge-based simulator training program. A fully controlled comparative trial will be conducted to scientifically compare the effectiveness of the new, ETC developed, simulation training system against upset-recovery training for pilots in a non-motion trainer. Richard A. Leland, Vice President, Training Operations, and Principal Investigator for this contract, stated, "Existing simulators are not able to replicate the motion dynamics of an aircraft-upset situation. Yet these motion stimuli, especially sustained G Forces, are primary drivers in a pilot's response to an aircraft-upset condition. A new approach is needed to provide pilots a safe and economical training system to counter aircraft-upset accidents. Our research focus is to achieve this goal." | ||
| ||
Visit www.nastarcenter.com to learn more. |
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 24, 2006.