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CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 27, 2004. Goodrich Corporation has been awarded a contract from the Boeing Company to produce the Advanced Concept Ejection Seat II (ACES) for the Republic of Korea's F-15K fighter program. A total of 80 ACES II ejection seats will be delivered to Boeing scheduled from August 2004 through December 2007.
According to Christine Probett, President, Aircraft Interior Products division, "This is the first F-15 ejection seat award for us since we acquired the ACES program. This contract now allows us to increase our support of future worldwide F-15 programs. Since Goodrich's acquisition of the ACES II line in 1999, the total seats produced by our Aircraft Interior Products team grows to 648 with this contract."
The ACES II, introduced in 1978, is the most successful aircrew escape system in the U.S. Air Force, and is credited with saving more than 500 lives. ACES II is rugged, light-weight, and easily maintained. It performs across an escape envelope from zero - 600 knots equivalent airspeed and zero - 50,000 feet in altitude. It also is designed to safely eject a crew member under zero altitude, zero speed conditions. At low speed, the ACES II produces a parachute 1.8 seconds after initiation. In addition, a unique gyro-controlled system stabilizes the seat during ejection.
Goodrich's Aircraft Interior Products, Propulsion Systems team in Phoenix, Arizona and Specialty Seating Systems team in Colorado Springs, Colorado manufacture the ACES II seat. The ACES II system is currently installed on the B-1B, B-2, A-10, F-15, F-16, F-22, and the F-117A aircraft in service with the U.S. armed forces, as well as on F-15s and F-16s of 22 nations.
For more information, see www.goodrich.com.
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