Product category: VMEbus Boards and Assemblies
News Release from: Radstone Embedded Computing | Subject: Image processor cards
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 13 October 2006
Image processor watches over airborne
refuelling
Image processor card is used in system that performed the first ever autonomous probe and drogue airborne refuelling engagement on 30th August at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
Demonstrating once again the advanced capabilities that have marked the company as a leader in its field, Octec Image Processing - part of Radstone Embedded Computing - has announced that its optical tracker solution had been selected by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) to be part of the Autonomous Airborne Refuelling Demonstration (AARD) System that performed the first ever autonomous probe and drogue airborne refuelling engagement on 30th August at Edwards Air Force Base, California Using a NASA F/A-18B and an Omega Air Refueling Services 707 tanker, the NASA Dryden flight test crew flew the F/A-18B to the designated pre-engagement position, activated the AARD system, and then "rode along" hands-off through a series of refuelling engagements
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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