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NASA Synthetic Vision
Program Taps Position Integrity for Terrain Database
May 13,
1999 NASA Langley today announced the
winners of its two-year competition to provide the next generation 3D
perspective displays in the cockpit. Industry
teams submitted 27 proposals in four categories: commercial transports and
business jets, general aviation aircraft, database development and enabling
technologies. NASA and researchers from
the FAA and Department of Defense evaluated the proposals' technical merit,
cost and feasibility. Limited visibility is the greatest
factor in most fatal aircraft accidents, said Michael Lewis, director of the
Aviation Safety Program at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. NASA has selected six industry teams to
create Synthetic Vision, a virtual-reality display system for cockpits,
offering an electronic picture of what's outside their windows, no matter the
weather of time of day. The General Aviation award went to
Position Integrity's team, which was headed up by Research Triangle Institute
(Research Triangle Park, NC.) Others on
this winning team included Archangel Systems, Inc. (Auburn, AL), Flight
International (Newport News, VA), Seagull Technologies (Los Gatos, CA), Crew
Systems (San Marcos, TX) and FLIR Systems (Portland, Or) Under the program Position
Integrity will be providing terrain databases for the low-cost GA Synthetic
Vision systems. Flight test begin late
in 2000. For
more information contact Robert A. Severino at Position Integrity
or by email at
robert.severino@positionintegrity.com |
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