Charles "Don" Bateman with the King Air C-90 airplane used for experimental product development at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, in 2016.
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Don Bateman’s terrain awareness warning system, invented in the 1960s, tackled one of aviation’s most prevalent risks—controlled flight into terrain (CFIT). The system used the radio altimeter and data from other sensors to tell the pilots how far their aircraft was above whatever was below, and...
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