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Radiant Aviation’s deicing facilities are
available in four standard sizes designed to
accommodate various aircraft design groups (ADG).
Radiant engineers work with each airport and
their airline customers to identify the optimal
facility size to efficiently deice the expected
mix of aircraft types
given the historical
winter weather patterns and trends and the
airport’s departure schedules during daily
operations.
While Radiant offers four standard structure
configurations, however, to some extent all
Radiant facilities are customized to meet
aircraft population, departure concentrations
and weather patterns over a full day of winter
operations.
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Radiant 1000 – ADG 1 and 2
The Radiant 1000 is designed to optimally
deice ADG categories 1 and 2, covering general
aviation aircraft, corporate jets and
turboprops, and handling aircraft as large as
the Gulfstream V and Global Express. The Radiant
1000 has a recommended footprint of 125’ x 125’.
Corporate Jets up to GV, Global Express
Turboprops including Dash-8 Series, ATR, EMB-135
Regional Jets up to CRJ-200/700/900, ERJ-145
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Radiant 2000 – ADG 3 and 4
The Radiant 2000 is designed to optimally
deice ADG categories 3 and 4, covering a range
of aircraft from regional jets to the Boeing
757, and can also accommodate ADG categories 1
and 2. The Radiant 2000 has a recommended
footprint of 200’ x 200’.
Large Regional Jets
Boeing 737, 757 series
Airbus A300, A319, A320, A321
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Radiant 3000 – ADG 5 and 6
The Radiant 3000 is designed to optimally
deice ADG categories 5 and 6, covering the
spectrum of wide body aircraft including the
Boeing 767, 777, 787, 747-400 and 747-8 and
Airbus A330, A340 and A350. The Radiant 3000 can
also be deployed on aircraft from the ADG 1
through 4 categories. Further, the Radiant 3000
can be configured with additional infrared
Energy Process Units (EPUs) to simultaneously
deice two narrow body aircraft on parallel
tracks. The Radiant 3000 has a recommended
footprint of 295’ x 295’.
Boeing 747 and 777 series
Airbus A330, A340, A350
MD-11
C-17 |
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Radiant 4000 – ADG 6+
The Radiant 4000 is the largest Radiant model
and is designed to optimally deice the largest
commercial passenger and cargo aircraft
currently being manufactured and certified. The
Radiant 4000 can accommodate the larger ADG
category 6 aircraft in addition to the A380, AN
124 AN225 and other special mission aircraft.
This model can also be used to efficiently deice
aircraft from ADG 3 through 5 and can be double
tracked for maximized throughput of ADG 3
aircraft. The footprint for this model can be
customized to meet the specific requirements of
the airfield and aircraft mix.
Military Applications
Radiant Aviation was engaged by DOD to
conduct studies demonstrating the deicing efficacy,
transportability and operational safety for personnel and
aircraft components and systems of Radiant’s patented
Infrared (IR) aircraft preflight deicing solutions for use
on all military aircraft types at both base operations and
in remote locations .
Using the C-17 military transport aircraft as
the test model the USAF, Radiant and Boeing Aircraft Company
designed and managed innovative research programs focused on
the development of an air-transportable deicing facility
that could be delivered to remote theater locations and
quickly assembled in support of mission-based air
superiority or transport flight activity. For these
forward-theatre operations Radiant developed a viable air
transportable concept, with IR heaters powered by
electricity generated from diesel powered generators.
In the second phase of the study protocol on
behalf of DOD, Radiant was a subcontracted by Boeing to
perform life cycle infrared exposure testing and C-17
thermal mapping at its fully operational deicing facility
located at JFK airport in New York. This testing
successfully demonstrated the safety of infrared deicing for
the C-17 aircraft, systems and supporting personnel.
The second phase of this project segment completed in the
fall of 2007 comprised the development of the optimal
Radiant system setup for deicing a C17 aircraft and as a
result of these successful tests, provisional approval of
Radiant’s patented IR deicing system for the C-17 is
expected during the latter part of 2008.
Radiant’s deicing technology is well suited to support and
enhance the Air Mobility Command’s winter flight operations
at mission critical bases such as Elmendorf AFB in Alaska,
at the vital “Air Bridge” trans-shipment air bases at
Ramstien, McChord, McGuire, Andrews, Fairchild and at
KC135/KC10 support bases across the United States.
As most US military airports have multi-
mission mandates to provide global reach, vigilance and
power year round in all climates Radiant is working to
develop IR deicing facilities that deice and dispatch
transport, command support and combat aircraft from
strategic air bases such as Eielson in Alaska.
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