Copyright 2002 Business Wire, Inc.
Business Wire
August 1, 2002, Thursday
HEADLINE: Regi U.S., Inc. -- Fabricating Completed for the U.S. Navy Project
DATELINE: VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 1, 2002
BODY:
REGI U.S., Inc. (OTCBB:RGUS), U.S. subsidiary of Reg Technologies, Inc. (RRE.V / OTCBB:REG RF), wishes to
announce that the hardware for building and testing the 0.5 H.P. Rand Cam(TM) ceramic engine has been fabricated.
The new engine will be developed for powering the U.S. Navy's new Smart Warfighting
Array ofReconfigurable Modules
(SWARM) low cost unmanned aerial vehicles. Assembly and testing has now commenced by REGI U.S., Inc.'s Engineer at
Advanced Ceramics Research at their Tucson, Arizona facilities. Patrick Badgley, vice president of REGI U.S., Inc., states,
"The Rand Cam(TM) rotary engine for the Navy's unmanned aerial vehicle, christened
"SWARM", will be made of ceramics
and plastic, lightweight materials that are preferable to metal because they are cheaper, they can't be easily detected by radar,
and they can withstand higher temperatures, enabling the engine to burn fuel more efficiently. The Rand Cam(TM) ceramic
engine in SWARM planes can be adopted by other government agencies or even private industry for a variety of purposes:
weather research, traffic control, monitoring national borders for illegal immigrants, scouting forest fires or spotting stranded
boaters or hikers."
Advanced Ceramics Research has been awarded the Phase I SBIR U.S. Navy contact
to build and test
a Naval 0.5
horsepower ceramic engine
with REGI U.S., Inc.
CONTACT: Regi U.S., Inc.
John Robertson, 604/278-5996
Fax 604/278-3409
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