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Volume 12
May 2017 Edition
Honeywell Improves
Cargo Planes Safety
in Hazardous Skies
Honeywell’s IntuVue RDR-4000 Weather Radar
provides Lockheed Martin’s commercial and
military cargo aircraft with advanced weather
detection for smoother, safer flights (Image
Honeywell to provide the military and
commercial versions of its innovative
3-D weather radar solution to Lockheed
Martin for use on its new LM-100J Super
Hercules commercial freighter.
With Honeywell’s IntuVue RDR-4000 and 4000M
Weather Radar systems, the Lockheed Martin
LM-100J will benefit from the same ease of use
and early warning of weather hazards — such
as lightning, hail and turbulence — available in
commercial airliners and business jets.
The radar enables pilots to operate in difficult
environments to support cargo transport, oil and
gas operations, firefighting, medical evacuation,
search and rescue, humanitarian relief missions,
and more.
(Learn More about IntuVue 3-D Weather Radar, courtesy of
Honeywell and YouTube)
Getting a better picture of weather ahead can
make flying more secure, shorten flight times or
delays, and protect airplanes and precious cargo
from costly damage due to hail and other ex-
treme weather.
Weather conditions around the globe can be se-
vere, and the LM-100J is expected to operate in
those conditions.
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