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SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT SELECTS NASA FOR VIRTUAL REALITY STUDY



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SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT SELECTS NASA FOR VIRTUAL REALITY STUDY

     A synthetic airport, created in the computer mind of a two-
story NASA simulator, will help San Francisco airport, one of the 
country's largest and most complex, plan changes to increase its 
efficiency.

     The San Francisco International Airport (SFO) Commission has 
selected NASA's FutureFlight Central, the world's only walk-in, 
full-scale, 360-degree airport simulator, to evaluate new tower 
positions, runway configuration and aircraft movements before new 
construction begins.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Michael Braukus 
(Phone: 202/358-1979).
Contact at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA:  John 
Bluck (Phone: 650/604-5026).

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-097.txt 



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