AVIONICS R. Fred Polak | Editor
AVIONICS THAT ARE COOL
HELICOPTER
If you have ever travelled to the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, metropolitan area, you know that it is pretty darn big.
Everything in Texas is big, right? About 45 miles west of Fort Worth is the small town of Mineral Wells at the intersection of highways 180 and 281. It is the home of Cool City Avionics, and it has come up with some great new avionics for the helicopter market. Here is a little bit about them, in their own words.
Vision To develop a line of aff ordable, high-technology, automatic fl ight control products that will forever change the general aviation helicopter industry by making automatic fl ight control and stability augmentation systems aff ordable.
Beginnings Cool City Electronics Inc. was formed in 2001 to produce commercial electronic products for the transportation industry. Initial products included control systems and wiring harnesses for highly-sophisticated three- wheeled vehicles. In 2003, the company started work on the architecture for a new line of instrument fl ight rules (IFR)- capable helicopter automatic fl ight guidance control system products. In the fall of 2004, Cool
City Avionics was formed to design, manufacture and market a line of innovative, aff ordable digital fl ight control systems for general aviation helicopters and airplanes.
Experience Cool City Electronics personnel have more than 400 years of combined experience in the automatic fl ight control industry — specifi cally in designing, manufacturing and installing automatic fl ight control systems for general aviation fi xed-wing aircraft, coupled with more than 40 years of experience in the helicopter industry. One of the principals, and other staff members, were founders of one of the industry-leading autopilot companies. In addition, their helicopter experience goes back to before “the helicopter war” in Vietnam, and includes service with one of the helicopter industry’s largest OEM manufacturing companies.
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