Mon, Apr 28, 2003
Making One Of World's Most Secure Airlines Even More
Secure
US Global Aerospace says it's received new orders
totaling $1,440,500 for 38 of the Company's Guardian™ Cockpit
Security doors. The new orders include doors for El Al Israel
Airlines' Boeing 737, 747, 757 and 767 fleets, and Aer Lingus'
Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 fleets. The USGA Guardian™ door is
the only enhanced security flight deck door that has passed the
Israeli Security Agency's (ISA) extensive testing and been
determined by the ISA to meet its rigorous standards.
Above And Beyond Requirements
"It has been our intention all along to provide a flight deck
security solution that went above and beyond the FAA mandated
minimum requirements," said John Robinson, Chairman and CEO of US
Global Aerospace, Inc. "We believe these orders from Israel and
Ireland-based airlines is testament to our success. These two
countries have more experience with the terrorist threat than the
rest of the world combined. They take security matters very
seriously -- to them it is much more than a public relations
exercise. They actually accept it as a matter of life or death."
US Global Aerospace's Guardian™ Door combines kinetic
energy absorbers, lightweight G-Lam(TM) anti-ballistic material and
USGA's proprietary passive vent system to provide access security
and ballistic and decompression protection to the flight crew while
eliminating the need for costly and time consuming airframe
structural enhancements. The US Global passive vent system is
designed to safely handle rapid decompression events unlike
traditional louvers or pop open vents, which have been known to
cause injuries upon activation. The Guardian(TM) Door costs from
$40,000 to $180,000 depending on aircraft and configuration and can
be installed in under eight hours.
Don't Forget To Lock It
The Guardian™ Door was developed specifically to comply
with FAA regulations requiring that all US-registered commercial
transport airlines and all foreign air carriers operating within
the United States install a reinforced cockpit door to prevent
unauthorized access to the cockpit. International counterparts to
the FAA are also requiring the installation of secure cockpit doors
in the worlds' fleets by November 2003.
The durability, strength and low weight of the Guardian™
Door comes from US Global Aerospace's proprietary G-Lam™
nano-fiber anti-ballistic material, created with a patent-pending
computer-designed weaving process that results in a crimp-free
material with tensile performance far superior to common
anti-ballistic composite materials.
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