28 Facts About Honeywell Aerospace

Honeywell Aerospace is a manufacturer of aircraft engines and avionics, as well as a producer of auxiliary power units and other aviation products.

Today, Honeywell Aerospace produces space equipment, turbine engines, auxiliary power units, brakes, wheels, synthetic vision, runway safety systems, and other avionics.

Honeywell Aerospace APU was used in the notable emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549, and a Honeywell Aerospace blackbox survived under sea for years, thus exceeding by far its specified limits to reveal the details of the crash of Air France Flight 447.

Honeywell Aerospace was involved in the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey and in 90 percent of US space missions.

Honeywell Aerospace owns dozens of patents related to NextGen technology, aircraft windshields, turbochargers, and more.

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Honeywell Aerospace is responsible for about thirty percent of Honeywell's total revenue with half from commercial contracts and half from defense contracts.

Honeywell Aerospace expects future revenue sources to be more geographically diverse as aviation grows in emerging markets like India and Africa.

Honeywell Aerospace publishes a regular business aviation forecast, which acknowledged a significant decline from 2008 to 2010, but expects recovery to 2008 levels by 2017.

Over nearly a century, through various acquisitions, mergers and name changes, Honeywell Aerospace combined legacy companies Sperry, Bendix, Garrett AiResearch, Pioneer, Lycoming, Grimes, King Radio and AlliedSignal.

In 1982 Allied Corporation acquired Bendix Honeywell Aerospace after coming in late in a protracted fight involving Bendix, Martin Marietta, and United Technologies.

Honeywell Aerospace provided the air conditioning system for America's first nuclear-powered submarine in 1954 and many Honeywell Aerospace controls were used in the Manhattan Project.

Honeywell Aerospace was responsible for many of the cockpit technologies in the first mass-produced, four-engine heavy bomber, the B-17 Flying Fortress.

Honeywell Aerospace began to create its first turbine engine called "the black box, " but a tight contract deadline and a problem with turbine efficiency resulted in the expensive project being scrapped in 1946.

Honeywell Aerospace supported the "long and painful" development process, but was rewarded by the 1970s.

In 1990 Litton Industries, who Honeywell Aerospace had just won a $400,000 settlement from, sued Honeywell Aerospace for $2 billion.

Honeywell Aerospace has been involved in most major space missions and projects.

Five Honeywell Aerospace engineers were assigned to the project to create plausible fictional space technologies.

Honeywell Aerospace was awarded a notable contract to provide controls to the International Space Station, a joint project of the Russian, European, Italian, Japanese, Canadian and US space agencies.

Honeywell Aerospace manufactures Manned Mobile Units, commonly known as space suits.

Honeywell Aerospace's LV50 Integrated Turbine Power Pack Systems are used in ground-based military vehicles.

Honeywell Aerospace is a founding member of the European Sesar Joint Undertaking project to develop post-2020 air traffic technologies for Europe.

Honeywell Aerospace is developing an airborne user interface for the European Space Agency's IRIS satellite communications system.

Additionally, Honeywell Aerospace is developing the SmartTraffic airborne separation assistance system, which detects when other aircraft are too close and suggests evasive maneuvers.

Honeywell Aerospace was granted design approval for SmartPath by the FAA in 2009.

Honeywell Aerospace engineers are developing an airport maps application that will display the plane's position on a runway map, runway and taxi navigation, show other traffic and highlight taxi route issues by air traffic control.

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Honeywell Aerospace's group has created safety systems that have become commonplace in aviation, such as the enhanced ground proximity warnings system, the runway awareness advisory system, and the stable approach monitor.

Honeywell Aerospace has numerous patents that relate to sensors and networks that monitor the operating condition of the plane.

Honeywell Aerospace has patents for turbine engines related to airflow, cooling and turbochargers and a patented secondary fuel system that's used to warm up the plane.