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Simplex To Install EVS on SkyCannon Firefighting Systems

The Max-Vis Enhanced Vision System camera will be mounted on the SkyCannon boom where it joins the turret. The camera will face directly down the boom.

By AIN Staff • AIN Staff

October 31, 2013

Helicopter crews fighting high-rise fires will soon be able to see through smoke via an Astronics Max-Viz enhanced-vision system (EVS) attached to a Simplex SkyCannon (water cannon). Portland, Ore.-based Simplex recently reached an agreement with Astronics, also in Portland, to install the Max-Viz EVS camera as standard equipment on all newly designed SkyCannon fire-fighting systems and add it to legacy systems as time allows.

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