PDF Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing Will Receive Four ETC Hypobaric Research Chambers
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing here will receive four hypobaric research chambers for aircrew research and equipment qualification testing.
The Department of Defense announced June 14 the award of a $ 38.3 million contract to Environmental Tectonics Corp., Southampton, Pa. for research chamber design, development, manufacturing, testing, installation, integration, and initial provision of spare parts and associated support equipment.
The four fully-instrumented altitude chambers will be supplemented by two hypobaric training chambers that will support aircrew and student training on the operational effects of high-altitude flight. One was relocated from Hill Air Force Base, Utah and the other from Holloman AFB, N.M. Both are already on site at Wright-Patterson. Installation and certification for the two training chambers is expected to begin later this fall. They are expected to be cleared for operation in 2012.
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