Aviation Safety Technologies LLC (“AST” or the “Company) announced it received its third patent on its revolutionary aircraft braking action reporting system.  This technology is incorporated in SafeLand^TM, AST’s real-time situational awareness
tool, which contributes to both safety and efficiency for airport operations.  The Company’s patents to date include the following:

• U.S. Patent 7797095 issued September 14, 2010 – “A method of calculating a true aircraft braking coefficient of the aircraft landing surface.”
• U.S. Patent No. 7957878 issued June 7, 2011 – “Computer Network for calculating and distributing a true coefficient for aircraft braking.”
• U.S. Patent No. 8050840 to be issued November 1, 2011 - “Method of calculating the amount of energy absorbed by aircraft brakes and tires.”

“We believe these patents are another validation of the value of the safety technology developed by Dr. Zoltan Rado over his long and productive career researching surface friction and related areas of study,” said Mike Dahl, Senior Managing Director.  “His collaboration with AST has resulted in turning very complex computational systems into practical and valuable applications.”

Aviation Safety Technologies is a Chicago based company that has been incubated by Dillon Kane Group, LLC and its affiliated companies.  It was founded in 2007 to commercialize the technology developed by Dr. Zoltan Rado, a leading expert on surface friction and a senior research associate within the Vehicle Systems and Safety Program.  Dr. Rado is also Director of the Crash Safety Research Facility at the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute at Penn State University.

Aviation Safety Technologies, LLC (“AST” or the “Company) announced it has entered into an advisory relationship with Conure Aviation Group, LLC (“Conure”).  Conure’s principals include Hank Krakowski, former head of the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization and Jim Johnson, one of the leading aviation weather experts in the country.

Mike Dahl, Senior Managing Director of AST commented: “We are delighted to add Hank and Jim to our advisory team.  Both provide deep, unique experience and aviation industry insight as AST takes its technology to market. Conure has already provided us with terrific guidance on how to best develop our braking action reporting system and other computational tools for the industry.”

Aviation Safety Technologies is a Chicago based company that has been incubated by Dillon Kane Group, LLC and its affiliated companies.  It was founded in 2007 to commercialize the technology developed by Dr. Zoltan Rado, a leading expert on surface friction and a senior research associate within the Vehicle Systems and Safety Program.  Dr. Rado is also Director of the Crash Safety Research Facility at the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute at Penn State University.

Aviation Safety Technologies, LLC (“AST” or the “Company) announced the completion of its commercial aircraft prototyping exercise.  The exercise started on October 31, 2010 and ended on April 1, 2011.  During this period, 7829 landings were recorded from two participating airlines with five different aircraft types. AST engaged Thomas Yager, retired NASA engineer, and a recognized expert on aircraft braking, to analyze the data.  Mr. Yager’s extensive report is available for review.

An excerpt from his conclusions: “The analysis results clearly demonstrate that the SafeLand technology produces friction condition reports for runways that are independent of the different aircraft types and pilot actions. The statistical analysis also reveals a very high repeatability and reproducibility of the measured runway conditions that are capable to follow the trend of runway friction changes. The data shows the ability of the technology to deliver high precision and reliable data in various conditions, including dry, rain wet, and snow contaminated surfaces.”

Aviation Safety Technologies, LLC (“AST” or the “Company) announced the latest release of its Safeland Braking Action Software Platform.  Safeland captures, analyzes and reports runway friction conditions, in real time, from landing aircraft delivering data through a report script sitting on an aircraft’s FDIMU avionics system.  SafeLand can deliver braking action reports, alerts and other data to airports, air carriers and Air Traffic Control from aircraft landing anywhere in the world. The software provides important feedback to air carrier pilots, dispatch and flight operations, ATC and airport operations about runway condition trends, both locally and across the network. It has the potential to revolutionize runway safety, as well as airport and air carrier operational decision making.

Aviation Safety Technologies is a Chicago based company which has been incubated by Dillon Kane Group, LLC and its affiliated companies.  It was founded in 2007 to commercialize the runway surface computational models developed by Dr. Zoltan Rado, a leading expert on surface friction and a senior research associate within the Vehicle Systems and Safety Program.  Dr. Rado is also Director of the Crash Safety Research Facility at the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute at Penn State University.