CORRECTING & REPLACING Rocket Racing League® & Elbit Systems Ltd. Introduce Targo™Racer Competition-Class Aviator’s Helm...
April 08 2010 - 4:18PM
Business Wire
Website address after About the Rocket Racing League
(RRL) should read (www.xracing.com) (sted
(www.rocketracing.com)).
The corrected release reads:
ROCKET RACING LEAGUE® AND ELBIT
SYSTEMS LTD. INTRODUCE TARGO™RACER COMPETITION-CLASS AVIATOR’S
HELMET-MOUNTED DISPLAY TO FLY RACEWAY-IN-THE-SKY™
Rocket Racing League® (RRL®), a sports and gaming
franchise based on competitions of piloted rocket-powered aircraft,
and Elbit Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq:ESLT) (Elbit Systems), an
international leader in helmet-mounted displays, this week
announced the successful completion of the first flight campaign of
the Targo™Racer, a revolutionary aviator’s helmet-mounted
display with advanced avionics that will enable RRL pilots to
competitively fly RRL’s 3D Raceway-In-The-Sky™ (RITS™).
Based on a collaborative partnership between Elbit Systems and
RRL, with support from RRL avionics partner, the University
Research Foundation (URF) Maryland Advanced Development Laboratory
(MADL), Targo™Racer helmet display was developed to
enable RRL pilots to receive mission and race critical flight
information directly onto their helmet visor within their natural
line-of-sight therefore increasing safety and performance. The
Targo™Racer helmet display delivers raceway geometry,
altitude, speed, gravitational pull and other parameters directly
in front of the aviator's eyes on a crisp off-the-visor display
that adjusts in real time.
RRL will debut the Targo™Racer helmet display in flight
exhibitions and dynamic ground displays on April 24, 2010 at the
QuikTrip Air & Rocket Racing Show in Tulsa, Oklahoma
(www.tulsaairshow.com).
“With more than 2500 pounds of thrust, RRL pilots go from zero
to full throttle in a fraction of a second and wheels-up in 4
seconds – think NASCAR or Formula One racing in the sky,” explains
RRL co-founder Peter Diamandis. “The Targo™Racer’s state of
the art capabilities give our pilots, which are some of the most
skilled in the world, the advanced avionics they need to deliver
the most dramatic performance for our fans and sponsors.”
The Targo™Racer helmet display leverages Elbit Systems’
highly successful Targo family of helmet-mounted display and
tracking capability. Within the Rocket Racing League’s
Cockpit-Based Augmented Reality System, the Targo Racer helmet
display provides the final building block to support safe
competitive racing through the Raceway-In-The-Sky.
“X-Racer vehicles provide a high profile platform to demonstrate
our unique Helmet Mounted Avionics (HMA) technology in an
environment where pilots are navigating their way through a virtual
raceway-in-the-sky in head-to-head competitions,” said Yoram
Shmuely, Executive Vice President and Co-General Manager of Elbit
Systems' Aerospace Division. “We are collaboratively pushing the
envelope in aerospace and avionics technology.”
From a spectator perspective, fans can expect to see the racing
action live and in real time on large projection screens, or
remotely, via TV or PC, fed by the Ground and Air Based Augmented
Reality Systems and dynamic imagery streams from the Targo Racer
and Cockpit-Based Augmented Reality Systems. Additional remote and
rocket-mounted cameras give fans the further sensation of riding
right alongside famed RRL pilots.
About the Rocket Racing League (RRL) (www.xracing.com)
Rocket Racing League (RRL) is a revolutionary new sports and
entertainment franchise where a diverse cadre of highly trained
military and test pilots such as former “Top Gun” graduates from
the Navy’s Fighter Weapons School fly rocket-powered aircraft
through a 3D virtual Raceway-In-The-Sky (RITS). To be held at
venues across the country, Rocket Racing will feature multiple
rocket races, from closed circuit to drag-style racing, pitting 2
to 10 Rocket Racer aircraft roaring head to head for victory. The
closed circuit format is planned to be a 4-lap multiple elimination
heat on a 5-mile Formula One style raceway in the Sky. The drag
style race will feature two Rocket Racers in drag-style
side-by-side format. Exhibitions flights and demonstrations are
planned to continue into 2010-2011, as the formal competitive
league takes to the skies.
About Elbit
Systems:
Elbit Systems Ltd. is an international defense electronics
company engaged in a wide range of programs throughout the world.
The Company, which includes Elbit Systems and its subsidiaries,
operates in the areas of aerospace, land and naval systems,
command, control, communications, computers, intelligence
surveillance and reconnaissance ("C4ISR"), unmanned aircraft
systems ("UAS"), advanced electro-optics, electro-optic space
systems, EW suites, airborne warning systems, ELINT systems, data
links and military communications systems and radios. The Company
also focuses on the upgrading of existing military platforms,
developing new technologies for defense, homeland security and
commercial aviation applications and providing a range of support
services. For additional information, visit:
www.elbitsystems.com.
Photos can be accessed at: www.xracing.com
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