Word: bertil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Emergency Vision Assurance System, manufactured by VisionSafe Corp. in Kaneohe, Hawaii. The portable, 5-lb. units inflate to form smoke-free plastic "cocoons" around instrument panels and windshields. Pilots activate the systems--there are two in each cockpit--after donning oxygen masks and goggles. Says mechanical engineer Bertil Werjefelt, who invented the device in the late 1980s and is president of VisionSafe: "There should never be a question for a second whether or not the pilots are able...