GPWS Pioneer Bateman To Retire
Bateman has secured nearly 50 U.S. patents and another 250 international patents over a career that spanned a half a century.
Don Bateman
Don Bateman

Don Bateman, who is credited with developing one of the most important safety technologies in aircraft today, is retiring after a more than 57-year career with Honeywell and its predecessor companies. A corporate fellow and chief engineer-technologist for flight safety systems and technology at Honeywell Aerospace’s facility in Redmond, Wash., Bateman was the developer of the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) and later the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS), both of which have helped reduce the controlled flight into terrain accident rate from one in every three million flights to less than one in every 20 million flights.


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