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ETC Promotes Key Manager
Southampton, Pa, October 19, 2006: - Environmental Tectonics Corporation (AMEX: ETC) ("ETC" or the "Company") today announced the promotion of Alper Kus to Vice President of Software Development. Mr. Kus, originally from Golbasi, Turkey, has held many positions since 1997 with ETC both in their Ankara, Turkey, subsidiary and at ETC's headquarters in Southampton, PA, including most recently as Software Division Manager. As Vice President, Mr. Kus' responsibilities will include overseeing all software development for ETC Southampton including; the National Aerospace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center, ETC's Aircrew Training Systems products and the state of the art Advanced Tactical Fighter Systems. Mr. Kus holds a degree in Computer Engineering and Information Sciences from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. William F. Mitchell, President and Chairman of ETC, stated, " Alper has been a key member of our software team for many years. He plays a pivotal role in coordinating software design and development efforts between ETC Southampton and our Turkish and Polish subsidiaries in Ankara and Warsaw. ETC's software in simulation is the most advanced in the world of simulation and this is due in large part to Alper and his team. I am pleased to offer him this promotion." FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ETC CONTACT: Duane D. Deaner, CFO of Environmental Tectonics Tel: 215-355-9100, ext.1203 Fax: 215-357-4000. Visit www.etcusa.com to learn more.
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. 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.