Mon, Oct 10, 2011
Esterline Corporation is a specialized manufacturing company
serving principally aerospace and defense markets. Approximately 80
percent of total revenues are generated from aerospace/defense
markets. The remainder is from the application of these
technologies into industrial markets. Company president Greg Yeldon
says Esterline management views the company’s businesses in
three segments related to its set of core competencies: Avionics
& Controls, Sensors & Systems, and Advanced Materials.
About a year ago, Exterline acquired the exclusive license to
the L-3 SmartDeck integrated cockpit, and at Oskhosh this year,
Yeldon said the company is in the process of talking with OEMs
about what features they would like to see integrated into the the
system, and where the company might want to take it.
Yeldon says the company has a "tremendous amount of experience in
retrofit," and they are very open to exploring possibilities in the
marketplace where SmartDeck might be adopted for commercial,
military, and paramilitary applications.
Yeldon says the SmartDeck is a full PFD, MFD Flight Management
System. He says CMCs FMS is a very robust system which the company
plans to bring into the SmartDeck system.
Yeldon says the company sees a lot of opportunity as the economy
continues to recover in both the GA and the business jet market for
SmartDeck. He says ease of use is critical terms of the amount of
data and information available to be displayed by glass cockpits.
He says the company has a lot of products in use in the higher end
of the military market, but the acquisition of SmartDeck is an
effective, "low cost" entry into a market segment it has not yet
tapped.
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