Farrell Welcomes New Corporate Member. (NDIA News).Lt. Gen. Lawrence P. Farrell, USAF (Ret.), president of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA NDIA National Defense Industrial Association NDIA New Doha International Airport (Qatar) ), visited ESCO ESCO Energy Service Company ESCO Estonian Shipping Company ESCO Esfahan Steel Company (Iran) ESCO Electric Steel Company, Inc. ESCO Eastern Sydney Chamber Orchestra (Australia) , the Engineered Arresting Systems Corporation, in Aston, Penn. He was there to welcome the company as a new member of NDIA. Farrell took a tour of ESCO's manufacturing facility and received an overview of the company's product innovation. ESCO's flagship products A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. are land-based, emergency, aircraft-attesting systems to achieve safe, rapid stops on runways, temporary airfields or highways. ESCO is the major supplier of these arresting systems to the U.S. military, as well as to 60 nations worldwide. ESCO Chief Executive Officer Thomas Mistier inducted Farrell into the Grand Order of Tape Dragons, a unique fraternity of pilots who have been safely arrested under emergency conditions by ESCO aircraft arresting gear A device used to engage hook-equipped aircraft to absorb the forward momentum of a routine or emergency landing or aborted takeoff. See also aircraft arresting system. . Farrell, during his career in the U.S. Air Force, logged over 3,000 flight hours and flew 196 missions in Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. . |
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