Flight Safety Technologies reports much traffic through its exhibit at the Paris Air Show.
The FST booth was visited by many representatives of the international aerospace customer community and company executives conducted meetings with FAA Administrator Marion Blakey, and Associate Administrator Nick Sabatini as well as key executives from Dubai and India. FST believes that these discussions reflect a worldwide upsurge of interest in technologies that address capacity constraints due to wake turbulence, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle collision avoidance, and terrorist missile threat countermeasures. FST is developing a system called AWSM (Aircraft Wake Safety Management) to increase airport capacity by safely reducing current spacing requirements between aircraft and is currently preparing a proposal to the FAA for a government-industry collaboration to demonstrate and perform a safety assessment for AWSM. FST has been selected by the USAF for a Small Business Innovative Research award ($100,000) to study the potential for the use of its Unicorn collision avoidance technology for UAV applications. The U.S. firm also is continuing to pursue TIICM technology for protection of airliners against certain shoulder-fired terrorist missile threats. FST expects the USAF to begin testing this technology using actual missiles at a Government facility starting later this year, although there can be no assurance as to whether or when such testing will commence.