LED lighting offers exciting benefits for aircraft both in terms of how the lighting can be designed and the installed functionality it can deliver, according to James Stratford of Universal Science. The aviation lighting market is experiencing a revolution, with conventional incandescent lighting being replaced by LED modules. Applications both civil and military, in-cabin and exterior, in the air and on the ground, are all being affected.

New types of lighting are creating new types of lamps today. LED, fluorescent and halogen lighting require special styles of holders for the bulbs, some suspended from the ceiling and some used in table or floor lamps.

Two new families of LED luminaires Band and Plane have been launched by Thorn to help lighting designers create magical atmospheres in towns and cities.

Carmanah to supply 200 solar-powered LED red obstruction light for the Sudanese Modile Telephone Company (Mobitel) in Khartoum, Sudan.

Philips Lumileds Lighting Company, the leading provider of LEDs for automotive exterior lighting applications, is supplying the power LED technology behind a variety of exterior lighting innovations on 2006 automobiles.

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In a bid to reduce over-consumptio n of crude oil from overseas, the US Department of Energy commits $5 million for seven research projects focused on solid-state lighting technology. Sandia National Laboratories is to spearhead a major part of the drive to develop LED-based lighting as the new home of the National Center for Solid-State Lighting Research and Development.