Word: airesearch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...