Patriot Taxiway Industries

United States

• SeriesKC-135

Existing lighting on the KC-135 provides less than 1 foot candle of light at the typical Aeromedical Evacuation patient position. This leads to AE crews holding spotlights to support patient monitoring and or emergency procedures during transport. Patriot Taxiway working with our customer has developed the following solution to provide more light inside the cargo bay of the KC-135. The Patriot Taxiway system provides over 20 foot candle at the patient position, which is an improvement of over 30 times the light found currently in the KC-135 cargo compartment.

• Series200
• Weight1.6 lbs

Patriot's lightweight, high performance LED lighting technology has significant benefits over incandescent or fluorescent technology such as increased reliability, reduced power consumption, high illumination and long life. We will work closely with you from blueprint to product delivery while providing the most comprehensive and innovative lighting solutions.200modelseries 150 Series Model • Significant reliability improvements over existing anti-collision lights Expected MTBF greater than 10, 000 hour operating time Energy savings of 60% - 70% • Standard "3.5 inch" mounting hole replacement for several aircraft including: Bell UH-1 Boeing CH-47 Sikorsky S-92 Beechcraft King Air A multitude of existing airframes • Direct retrofit into two wire aircraft lighting systems • No wiring changes needed on AC Instrument panel conversion kit for IR control module Provides 28 VDC to light for visible mode

Management of the Assembly, Integration, and Test program which includes engineering production and delivery of the approach lighting systems to the FAA's Mike Moroney Technical Center in Oklahoma Patriot Taxiway Industries is providing support to the Federal Aviation Administration in acquiring the components for the MALSR system. The MALSR components will be assembled per FAA design drawings. Patriot's engineers will work closely with other MALSR component manufacturers to ensure overall operability of the system.

The introduction of the LED approach lighting systems brings energy saving opportunities, answers to the requirements Energy Act of 2007 and brings challenges to the Enhanced Vision Systems depending upon the Excess energy of the incandescent sources for an infrared signature to identify the runway approach.Patriot Taxiway industries studied the feasibility of integrating IR emitters into an LED based lighting fixture. This included reviewing the complex requirements of making an LED fixture with Infrared (IR) sources into existing MALSR systems. Patriot evaluated the IR requirements of the Enhanced Vision systems and the PRD-LED-0001 requirements to provide detailed IR design feedback for the customer to use for evaluation. The current MALSR and integrating new LEDIR fixture were presented in study. Issues in integrating fixture into the MALSR were identified and addressed.