SuperView 100 is a windowing product that allows a user to display four simultaneous live video windows on a single high-resolution workstation screen. It is compatible with any workstation with up to 1,280 X 1,024 pixel resolution. Applications include high-quality video and graphics display, and command, control, communications and intelligence. The system can accept inputs from cameras, recorders and teleconferencing systems. Each window can be independently positioned, scaled up or down, overlaid with graphics or overlapped with other video windows.
A FORCE OF 40 MISSION AND SUPPORT AIRCRAFT rescued Air Force F-16 Capt. Scott O'Grady from Bosnia last week, amid conflicting statements from top military leaders about why he was ordered into an area with a serious missile threat without adequate warning or support aircraft. Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, insisted in congressional testimony that even though O'Grady was shot down by a Bosnian Serb mobile SA-6 surface-to-air missile, ``We had absolutely no intelligence [of an active SAM threat]. For months . . .
The F-22 flight test program will include eleven EMD aircraft--nine flying versions and two ground-based static and fatigue test articles. Four of the flight test aircraft will be used to explore aircraft structure issues, while the remaining five F-22s will be used for development of the fighter's highly integrated avionics system. The flight test aircraft include:
Tamper Evident thermal transfer tape is designed for use with Kroy portable label and barcode printers. Attempts to lift or remove the label will cause the word ``Void'' to appear on the label and the object. The tape was developed in response to requests from aviation customers. It can be used to protect access covers or even doors of aircraft parked in remote areas. The labels resist chemicals, water and ultraviolet light. Other applications include laboratories, law enforcement and protection of sensitive electronic components. Kroy Inc., P.O.
THE U.S. TRANSPORTATION DEPT. is proposing to remove a requirement that airlines include mechanical delays and cancellations in their on-time data filed with the department. U.S. scheduled airlines have been required to report such delays since January. The change was prompted by concerns within the industry that the rule could place ``inappropriate pressure'' on technicians to maintain on-time schedules, according to the department.
XPert is a Microsoft Windows-based program for making X-ray fluorescence thickness measurements. The program drives UPA Technology's XRF-5000 Series XRF measurement system for coating thickness and composition, plating bath analysis and materials assay. Features include an interface designer that allows operators to configure and store personalized user interfaces, a visual cascade that combines a mouse-driven sample positioning system with multiple levels of video viewing, and an electronic ruler that delivers real-time dimensional analysis of samples.
The way NASA operates space shuttles will change fundamentally this year regardless of whether space agency officials shift more responsibility for the vehicles and their flights to private contractors.
The Barracuda 3 is a five-axis, gantry type long-bed router and spar mill designed for manufacturing aerospace components. It can be used on aluminum, composite and honeycomb materials. Features include a welded, heavy steel plate open bed that allows chips to fall to a conveyor for easy extraction, a cast iron ``T-slot section'' table for securing workpieces and fixtures, a gantry powered from both sides by synchronous drives and spindle designs rated for up to 20 hp. and 18,000 rpm. continuous duty. Onsrud Machine Corp., 110 W. Carpenter Ave., Wheeling, Ill. 60090.
The short-term outlook for major U.S. airlines could not be more encouraging. Revenue and earnings are exceeding Wall Street expectations, recent fare increases are continuing to hold, and transatlantic business is at or near a cyclical peak. Moreover, all of this is happening against the backdrop of productivity improvements, reductions in unit costs, improved yield-management systems and rationalization of route systems. For the year, major U.S. carriers almost certainly will post net earnings of $1 billion or more, versus about $200 million in 1994.
NASA IS CONSIDERING MAJOR CHANGES in the X-33 project to keep it from turning into a program to build a replacement space shuttle. NASA boss Daniel S. Goldin is said to be very disappointed with what he regards as the conservative designs coming out of the three X-33 teams--Boeing/McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed Martin and Rockwell. The three have pleaded that if they are going to invest their own money in the reusable launch vehicle (RLV) effort, they want some business out of it when the X-33 program ends, not after some follow-on RLV is built.
These reverse osmosis housings for 2.4-in. spiral-wound separators are made of stainless steel, yet are comparable in price to PVC and fiberglass housings. They will resist warping, cracking and weeping. Features include a simplified clamp-type end cap closure that provides easy machine assembly and quick membrane replacement. The housings can accommodate standard-length 2.4-in. membrane elements. Osmonics Inc., 5951 Clearwater Drive, Minnetonka, Minn. 55343-8990.
Don J. Brown has been appointed manager of corporate communications of Garmin International, Lenaxa, Kan. He was vice president of Womack-Kleypus Advertising, San Antonio, Tex.
Christian Dries has been named president/chief executive officer of Diamond Aircraft Industries, London, Ontario. He was managing director of HOAC Austria.
The U.S. Coast Guard is testing a redesigned aircraft cooling unit for its Eurocopter HH-65 helicopter that uses an environmentally sensitive refrigerant without sacrificing performance.
The $6-billion order from Saudi Arabia for U.S. commercial transport aircraft appears to be in the final stages of discussion and could soon be formally an-nounced, according to industry and government officials. U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown told AVIATION WEEK&SPACE TECHNOLOGY last week that Boeing, as expected, will receive roughly two-thirds of the value of the acquisition, while McDonnell Douglas will obtain orders for the remaining amount.
O'GRADY'S RESCUE MAY GIVE IMPETUS to an Air Force plan for developing a new, handheld search and rescue radio with satellite communications capability. The radio--with the asinine name of Combat Survivor Evader Locator (CSEL)--would transmit both a Global Positioning System location signal and a message on the pilot's condition through a satellite data link. A helicopter crew would know beforehand where to find a missing pilot, and a voice channel would enable the pilot to contact a helicopter as it approached.
These miniature load force transducers, which measure as small as 0.75 in. dia., deliver accuracies of 0.0025-0.1%. The TH-UM series transducers are designed to withstand loads of up to 10,000 lb. and temperatures to 250F. Both the TH-UM and the compression-type TH-CMs are constructed of stainless steel. They are available in a number of models. T-Hydronics Inc., 149 Stelzer Court, Sunbury, Ohio 43074.
This line of stainless steel sample filters is designed to protect process analyzers and monitoring equipment. The models 31S6, 31G, 41S6, 41G and 91S6 remove solids and liquids from gases with 99.99% efficiency at 0.1 mm. and solid particulates from liquids to 0.2 mm. The filters can be changed without tools, have a maximum operating temperature of 400F and a maximum pressure of up to 500 psig. They feature 0.5-in. NPT ports. Whatman Inc., 260 Neck Road, Box 8223, Haverhill, Mass. 01835-0723.
Erik Werner Wichmann, a senior at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Fla., has won the 1995 Harold S. Wood Award for Excellence from the General Aviation Manufacturers Assn. The regional finalists were: Jacqueline Ann Peltier of Ohio State University, Columbus; Daniel Montgomery of Central Texas State University, Killeen; Brenda Marie Johnson of St. Cloud (Minn.) State University; Lourdes Ramos of the University of New Haven (Conn.); Michael Funk of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; and Daren Black of Averett College, Danville, Va.
Stephen J. Van Gordon has been named senior vice president-technical services for Southern Air Transport of Miami. Michael R. Vogt was appointed director of sales for the Pacific Rim.
AVIATION PSYCHOLOGISTS at Ohio State University are field-testing a ``personal minimums'' pilot education program aimed at improving general aviation safety. The 90-min.-long, case-based course encourages pilots to determine and set a series of personal safety guidelines based on their experience, training, currency and locale. The goal is to help pilots make better preflight risk assessments even when it is legal to fly under broad FAA rules, according to Richard Jensen, director of OSU's Aviation Psychology Lab.
Discoverer-14, the first successful U.S. photo-reconnaissance satellite launched on Aug. 18, 1960, provided more overhead imagery of the USSR than previously obtained by 24 over-flights of U-2 aircraft during a four-year period. The 3,000 ft. of 70-mm. film recovered from Discoverer-14 provided coverage of nearly one-fifth of the Soviet Union, John Deutch, director of central intelligence, disclosed here at a recent conference.
