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Ophir beams up to AS9100.
4/11/2006  Ophir Corporation beams up to a new level: AS9100 certification! Ophir Corporation has boldly gone where few small product development firms have gone before.  Ophir has achieved its goal to be AS9100 certified! Read the release

Turbulence brings a new NSF grant to Ophir.
1/11/2006  The National Science Foundation awards grant for research of a turbulence sensor.  Detection and measurement of turbulence ahead of an airborne vehicle is the subject of a new Ophir research study funded by a $99,000 National Science Foundation grant. A sensor technology that can detect turbulent events well ahead of the aircraft will provide a significant cost and safety benefit to the commercial airline industry and its customers.  Read the release.

NASA Dryden Aerovations publication features Ophir SBIR project.
12/5/2005  Ophir's Optical Air Data System Research is highlighted. Ophir has completed four Small Business Innovative Research projects funded by NASA Dryden, including a Phase I and II for development of Rayleigh/Mie lidar for non-intrusive measurement of aircraft air data parameters. Read the article

Ophir Corporation celebrates 25 successful years.
10/5/2005  Ophir celebrates 25 years of optical sensing research and development with a new look.  Read the article.

Measuring the invisible…sky sensors !
7/12/2005  Ophir Corporation recently received a patent for a pioneering optical system that measures the air outside a moving aircraft.  This system may be used to measure the air parameters that affect aircraft operation; in essence it will optically profile the atmosphere.  Read the article.

Transmission Pipeline Leaks Measured from the Sky
3/23/05 – Ophir Corporation, a Littleton, Colorado, small business, successfully completed flight tests of its duoThane® pipeline leak detector.  Read the release.