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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,
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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 A319, A320, A321
MD 80, DC-9
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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
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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
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