Pentagon Selects Emteq for Helicopter Rotorblade Lighting
The Pentagon’s Naval Research office has selected Emteq to create a rotorblade tip lighting system.

The Pentagon’s Naval Research office has selected Emteq to create a rotorblade tip lighting system. The program’s goal is to develop and build a reliable, lightweight system that can be modulated to provide red, green and white navigation lights at the appropriate position on the azimuth: a hover mode that clearly marks the rotor disk’s circumference to ground crews and a low-observable night-vision-goggle-compatible mode that could be used in night formation flight.

Over the next six months, Emteq will complete the program’s phase 1 feasibility study. Phase 2 of the program, scheduled for later this year, involves fabrication and testing, while phase 3 transitions to flight-qualified technology.

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