Tuskegee University Collaboration
NSF Awards SBIR IIA – RISE Grant to Lite Enterprises Lite Enterprises (LITE) and Tuskegee University (TU) have teamed to apply the combined benefits of LITE’s non-lethal wildlife deterrence technique with TU’s knowledge of improved polymer nanocomposite materials to […]
Sully’s Solution: Saving Airplanes from Bird Strikes
On January 15th, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 executed an emergency landing in the Hudson River alongside Manhattan after a double engine failure while leaving LaGuardia Airport in New York. The culprit? A flock of Canada geese. The story of […]
RC Plane Test – July, 2016
The Lite Enterprises team just returned from a week-long trip to Cape May, New Jersey, to test RC planes on an airstrip. The photo below shows one of the RC planes with a UV light mounted in the middle (between […]
Joe Nall Week
Lite Enterprises attended the Triple Tree Aerodome Joe Nall Week May 13th – 20th. We viewed a wide range of RC flying exhibitions, met several interesting people, and spoke with many vendors with RC equipment and supplies. There 1723 total pilots […]
Beacon Pre-Production Unit Completed
Lite Enterprises has completed a design and build of the beacon pre-production unit. This 18-inch unit is programmable and can be remotely controlled through a wireless network. Testing is beginning before we commit to production units. The height of the […]
Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife 2015
The German Federal Environmental Ministry and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy hosted the Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife (CWW) 2015 in Berlin last week. The conference presented a compilation of research results on wildlife effects from wind […]
A Very Productive Year, with Progress on the Horizon for 2015!
Happy New Year! We are excited to begin 2015 with the launch of our brand new website! We had a productive 2014, working towards the development of wildlife deterrence systems incorporating new advances to create more effective non-lethal deterrents and […]
Bird Strike Committee-USA and the Bird Strike Association of Canada
Lite Enterprises attended the joint meeting of the Bird Strike Committee-USA and the Bird Strike Association of Canada in Milwaukee, WI. The meeting was attended military and civilian personnel responsible for airfield operations, wildlife and wetland resource managers, land-use planners, […]
NWCC
Lite Enterprises presented a paper regarding the bird/bat deterrence system at the National Wind Coordinating Collaborative (NWCC) conference in Denver, CO. The NWCC provides a neutral forum for a wide range of stakeholders to pursue the shared objective of developing […]
Defect Detection System
A major manufacturer of patterned photomask parts to the semiconductor and display industry has placed a repeat order for a defect detection system. The system locates and characterizes defects of the fabricated parts using a CAD file as a reference. […]