In the spring of 1944, a young engineer witnessed a small aircraft, piloted by a friend, appear to simply fall out of the sky, killing the pilot and destroying the airplane. It was this accident that changed aviation as we know it today.
In October of 1946, Leonard Greene formed Safe Flight Instrument Corporation to begin development of lift instrumentation that would warn a pilot when approaching the stall characteristics of an airplane. Greene patented this wing mounted lift detector. Thus, the modern day stall warning device was born. Since then, every aircraft in the world has been equipped with some form of stall warning.
Today, Safe Flight celebrates its 60 th anniversary. While continuing to manufacture the Lift Detector, Safe Flight has pioneered new products to improve the safety and performance of today’s complex aircraft.
Headquartered in White Plains, New York, Safe Flight pioneered the development of Stall Warning and Angle-of-Attack, Automatic Throttle Systems, Wind Shear Warning, and many other innovations in aircraft instrumentation, flight performance and control systems for fixed- and rotary-winged aircraft. Safe Flight products are installed on over two-thirds of the world’s aircraft in the general aviation, commercial and military sectors.
