Aviation Week & Space Technology
03/29/1999

Solex Environmental's "Maverick" fuel storage tank inspection robot recently successfully completed a bottom floor inspection of an Amoco floating-roof tank near Baton Rouge, La. The robot gathered 100,000 data points during the three-day, in-service demonstration inspection of the tank, which held 206,000 barrels of light crude oil, according to Don Hartsell, president of Solex's robotics division in Houston. A demonstration inspection of a USAF floating-roof jet fuel storage tank at MacDill AFB, Fla., began last week. Maverick development has been aided by TechLink through a Space Act Agreement with NASA Johnson Space Center. 

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