Airbus Industrie Selects Evans & Sutherland Flight Simulator Visual Systems; E & S to Become First Independent Player in Visual System Market with AIRBUS Award of Two System Contracts.HORSHAM, SUSSEX, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 1995--Airbus Industrie, The European consortium of commercial airline manufacturers, awarded a contract to Evans & Sutherland Computer Ltd., the English subsidiary of Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ESCC ESCC Eastern Shore Community College ESCC East Sussex County Council ESCC Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma ESCC Enhanced Serial Communication(s) Controller ESCC Electrically Self-Calibrating Cavity ), Salt Lake City, UT, to purchase fully integrated visual systems for its A320 and A330/340 airline flight simulators. The competitively bid multimillion dollar contract establishes E & S' entry as the first independent supplier to the civilian aviation simulation system market. E & S visual systems will be included in flight simulators installed in Airbus' Beijing, China training site in fourth quarter 1996 and its Toulouse, France training site in late 1998. Airbus Industrie offers flight training to its customers' pilots at sites in Miami, Florida and Toulouse and plans to open the third site in China. "This is an especially important contract because it confirms our re-entry into the civil pilot training market," said Jim Oyler, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Evans & Sutherland. "Historically, we've been the leader in providing visual subsystem components for flight simulators, with installations in an estimated 70 percent of the market. However, the nature of the market has changed and we are now competing as a full visual supplier rather than as a subcontractor." The visual systems include Evans & Sutherland's latest ESIG ESIG European Solvents Industry Group ESIG Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (US National Center for Atmospheric Research) ESIG Electronic Signature ESIG Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique de Gestion 3350 image generator, its new 180-degree X 40-degree wide angle collimated In a straight line. Collimated light beams are parallel rays of light. display systems, software and airport databases. The new display system incorporates raster-calligraphic projectors designed by E & S to overcome the limitations of currently available devices and the systems will provide the highest performance ever offered in the aviation industry. E & S will integrate the display system into the overall simulator complex. Airbus Industrie's choice of E & S technology over strong bids from other mainstream simulator manufacturers positions them as a leader in the existing market and in the new market opening in China. The award marks the beginning of an ongoing relationship for E & S and Airbus. Evans and Sutherland manufactures hardware and software for highly realistic computer graphics systems. Founded in 1968, the company has delivered more than 750 real-time visual systems for simulation and training to the civil aviation and defense industries, every U.S. branch of service, allied military forces and NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. . The company is headquartered in the University of Utah The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U or the UU), located in Salt Lake City, is the flagship public research university in the state of Utah, and one of 10 institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education. Research Park, Salt Lake City, Utah For ships of the United States Navy of the same name, see . Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake, or its initials, S.L.C. . CONTACT: Evans & Sutherland, Salt Lake City Jayne Anderson, 801/582-5847 or Edelman Worldwide, Silicon Valley Debbie Young, 415/968-4033 |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion