Tue, Jan 14, 2003
Adam
Aircraft CEO Rick Adam will speak at the NASA Small Aircraft
Transportation System Program (SATS) as part of the 82nd Annual
Meeting of the Transportation Research Board being held in
Washington, D.C. January 15, 2003. Joined by other industry leaders
Vern Raburn, Eclipse Aviation Corporation, and James Fallows,
The Atlantic Monthly, and author of Free Flight,
Mr. Adam will share his plan for emerging technology and creative
innovations being incorporated in the manufacture of the Adam
Aircraft A500 and A700 products.
The purpose of the NASA Small Aircraft Transportation System
(SATS) program is to develop, integrate, and demonstrate new
affordable technologies that enable equitable, on-demand,
near-all-weather accessibility of small aircraft to small community
airports. The resulting transportation system provides a safe,
point-to-point, widely distributed, cost-effective, and timesaving
alternative for widespread use.
According to Dr. Bruce Holmes, manager of the General Aviation
Programs Office, "SATS represents a national opportunity to create
an affordable and safe transportation alternative that frees people
and products from today's system delays by creating access to more
communities in less time." Holmes explained, "We want to provide
support to aircraft manufacturers to develop aircraft that can
operate in non-radar environments with limited air traffic
assistance and without instrument landing systems. Essentially, we
want to see more efficient and economic air travel options for the
public and to open commercial air traffic to small
communities."
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