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At the U.S. Department of Defense Tri-Service Advanced Coatings Removal Conference, Orlando, Florida, March 1-3, 1988, we presented information on Air Canada's interest in the development of a dust-free, automated, plastic media dry stripping system. This included a description of semi-automated equipment under development for this project based on Air Canada's stationary/simulator configuration experience. Phase I of their program was to build a prototype of the proposed robotic arm, and it's dust enclosure to: prove basic automation concepts; show reasonable paint removal rate from a curved surface; and, establish that process is dust-free and recovers media in a closed-cycle fashion. Phase I was successfully completed by the March 1988 date of the first paper, except for the determination of optimum blasting parameters.