Technology helps prevent mid-air mishaps.

• Author: Williams, Robert H.
• Position: Brief Article

Mid-air helicopter crashes may become a thing of the past. The Lahav division of Israel Aircraft Industries has developed a system that predicts collisions during tactical missions and formation flights.

Called the tactical mid-air collision avoidance system, it alerts pilots on the network of unexpected traffic with a 15-second or less impact path. a 40-meter or less gap between helicopters, or a hover-landing situation.

The network said a company official, "calculates collision conditions using a dynamic, high-trajectory evaluation algorithm and automatically alerts the...