TracPlus Global Helps Pilots Smash World Speed Record

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AgustaWestland Grand helicopter.

by Staff Writers
Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 21, 2008
TracPlus Global provided Iridium-enabled tracking systems for a pair of American pilots in their successful attempt to set a new world helicopter speed record in August 2008.

The pilots, Scott Kasprowicz and Steve Sheik, broke the world record for around-the-world flight by nearly six days, flying an unmodified AgustaWestland Grand helicopter.

TracPlus supplied real-time flight tracking services, with position reports transmitted from the aircraft at one-minute intervals through the Iridium satellite network.

The Grand Adventure Website ran the helicopter's position updates in near real time.

TracPlus also created a global messaging application allowing the crew to communicate in real time with the mission command center in Atlanta.

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