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...SPACE & INFORMATION SYSTEMS will have the prime responsibility for the Apollo, will probably be assisted by four Mercury-seasoned subcontractors: Northrop (recovery system), AiResearch Manufacturing (environmental control within the capsule), Minneapolis-Honeywell (flight control), and Collins Radio (space-to-base communications...
...numbers alone, Phoenix's AiRe-search Manufacturing is way out front in the industrial turbine field. It has built close to 10,000 small gas turbines to account for 80% of the total U.S. output. Like Boeing, AiResearch's major product is gas turbine air compressors to start large jet engines, but it has found other uses for them, e.g., cleaning pipelines by blowing air and sand through them, boosting pressure on gas wells. AiResearch's smallest gas turbine, which weighs only 48 Ibs. yet produces 35 h.p., is used by the armed forces as a portable...
...device captures hot exhaust gases to drive a turbine, which in turn drives air into the cylinder, increasing combustion and power. Primarily developed for Caterpillar Tractor of Peoria, Ill., the supercharger reportedly boosts heavy-duty diesel-engine output by 50%, trebles the tractor's work capacity. Airesearch next plans to adapt the turbosuperchargers to smaller diesel engines, such as those on trucks and buses...
Thin Air. Cliff Garrett's associates like to say that "he built a business out of thin air." He literally did. His Garrett Corp. (AiResearch is a manufacturing division) grew by making devices to cool, blow and compress air, is now outranked only by Bendix and Sperry in the aircraft accessory business...
...soon realized that higher altitudes and higher plane speeds would require pressurizing and cooling mechanisms. With Engineer Walter Ramsaur, he started AiResearch, marketed a device to cool engine oil at high altitudes, and began working with Boeing on pressurizing cabins. Garrett built the pressurizers for the B29, World War II's only pressurized aircraft, began supplying virtually all pressurizing equipment for U.S. planes (except for Douglas, which makes its own). Garrett's company branched out into superchargers and electronic equipment, turned out $112 million of World War II equipment and had 5,000 employees at its wartime peak...