Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation - Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading producer of military and civilian aircraft of the 20th century. Founded in 1929 by Leroy Grumman, its independent existence ended in a 1994 merger with the Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman. History Leroy Grumman and others worked for the Loening Aircraft Engineering Corporation in the 1920s, but when it was bought by Keystone Aircraft and the operations moved from New York City to Pennsylvania, Grumman and his partners (Ed Poor, William Schwendler, Jake Swirbul, and Clint Towl) started their own company in a garage in the town of Baldwin on Long Island. The company filed as a business on 5 December 1929, and opened its doors 2 January 1930..
Roger Wolfe Kahn - his orchestra. Reportedly, when the band was playing especially well he used to throw himself onto the floor and wave his legs in the air. However, in the mid-1930s, he lost interest in his orchestra and disbanded it. Instead, he preoccupied himself with aviation and eventually, in 1941, became a test pilot for the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, a well-known aircraft manufacturer. In 1931, Kahn made headlines on the New York society pages when he married musical comedy actress Hannah Williams. The wedding was at Oheka Castle, his family's estate on Long Island, and was kept secret from the public for two weeks, until the Broadway show Williams was appearing in, Sweet and Low, had had its final performances. The couple made headlines again when they divorced two years later and.
List of US defense contractors - contractors. Accenture Ltd Aerospace Center Support Aerospace Corporation Alliant Techsystems Allied-Signal Inc AM General Corporation American Petroleum Institute Anteon International Corporation Applied Research Associates Inc Avondale Industries Inc (division of Northrup Grumman) BAE Systems PLC (British Aerospace) Ball Aerospace & Technologies Ball Corporation Bath Holding Corporation Battelle Memorial Institute Bechtel Corporation Bell Helicopter (divison of Textron) BDM Corporation Boeing Company Boeing Sikorsky Comanche Team Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc Brashear (owned by Nextel) British Nuclear Fuels Limited CACI International Inc Carlyle Group Carnegie Mellon University Charles Stark Draper Laboratories CNA Corporation Concurrent Technologies Corporation Computer Services Corporation Digital System Resources Inc DynCorp Edison Welding Institute EDO Electronic Data Systems Corporation Electric Boat (division of General Dynamics) Environmental Tectonics Corporation Exxon Corporation F M C Technologies Foster Wheeler Ltd Foundation Health Systems.
Sperry Corporation - Sperry Corporation Sperry Corporation began in 1910 as the Sperry Gyroscope Company, founded by Elmer Ambrose Sperry to manufacture navigation equipment, chiefly his own inventions - the marine gyrostabilizer and the gyrocompass. During WW I the company diversified into aircraft components including bomb sights and fire control systems. In 1918 Lawrence Sperry split from his father to compete over aero-instruments with the Lawrence Sperry Aircraft Company, including the new automatic pilot. In 1924 following the death of Lawrence (December 13, 1923) the two firms were brought together. The company became Sperry Corporation in 1933. The new corporation was a holding company for a number of smaller entities such as the original Sperry Gyroscope, but also Ford Instrument Company, Intercontinental Aviation, Inc. and others. The company did very.
Northrop Corporation - Northrop Corporation The Northrop Corporation was a leading aircraft manufacturer of the United States. In 1994 it merged with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman. Jack Northrop actually founded three companies using his name. The first was the Avion Corporation in 1927, which was absorbed in 1929 by the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation as a subsidiary named "Northrop Aviation Corporation". The parent company moved its operations to Kansas in 1931, and so Jack, along with Donald Douglas (of Douglas Aircraft Company fame), established a "Northrop Corporation" located in El Segundo, California, which produced several successful designs, including the Northrop Gamma and Northrop Delta. However, labor difficulties led to the dissolution of the corporation by Douglas in 1937, and the plant became the El Segundo Division of Douglas.
List of aircraft manufacturers - List of aircraft manufacturers A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Aircraft manufacturers (in alphabetic order) (years of operation in parenthesis) A Aermacchi (1913-present) Aero Commander Aerocar Aeronca Aerospatiale (1970-1999) Aerospatiale-Matra (1999-present) Aero Vodochody Agusta Airbus Airco Airspeed (1930-1950?) Alon American Aviation Antonov Arado Armstrong-Whitworth ATR (from 1981 on) Auster (1939-1961) AviaBellanca (1983-present) Aviat Aviation Traders Avro Avro Canada (1945-1962) B Bachem BAE SYSTEMS BAMC Bayerische Flugzeugwerke Beagle Beechcraft Bell (1935-1960) Bell Helicopter (1960-present) Bellanca (1927-1983) Beriev (1934-present) Blackburn Blèriot Blohm und Voss Boeing (1916-) Bölkow Bombardier Aerospace Boulton Paul Brantly Breguet (1911-1973) Brewster (1932-1942) Bristol Aeroplane Company British Aerospace (1977-1999) British Aircraft Corporation Britten-Norman Bücker Burgess (1911-1916).
Japanese submarine I-52 - lead ship of the three Type C-3 submarines designed and constructed by the Mitsubishi Corporation in 1943 and 1944. In March 1944, on her maiden voyage, I-52 departed Kure, Japan, picked up a cargo of 290 tons of strategic materials, including 228 metric tons of tin, 2.3 tons of opium, three tons of quinine, tungsten, 54 tons of rubber, and two tons of gold, in Singapore, and headed through the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. In mid-ocean, she rendezvoused with U-530, a Type IXC/40 U-boat, which provided her with fuel and installed a Naxos radar detector. A Naxos operator and a navigator familiar with the Bay of Biscay joined the Japanese crew to help the submarine survive the final leg of the journey into Lorient. However, unknown to either the.
John F. Kennedy Space Center - renamed Cape Kennedy, but this change was unpopular with the local people and the name reverted in 1973. The lunar project had three stages - Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. The objective of Mercury was to orbit and retrieve a manned Earth satellite. The project started in October 1957 using the Atlas ICBM as the base to carry the Mercury payload. but early testing used the Redstone rocket for a series of suborbital flights including the 15-minute flights of Alan Shepard on May 5 and Virgil Grissom on July 21, 1961. The first human carried by an Atlas was John Glenn on February 20, 1962. From the knowledge gained through Mercury the more complex two-man capsules of Gemini were prepared as was a new launcher based on the Titan II ICBM. The.
Hawker-Siddeley - Hawker-Siddeley Hawker-Siddeley was a British aircraft manufacturing company. The company went through a long evolution before emerging as one of only two major manufacturers in the 1960s,and eventually being merged into British Aerospace in the 1980s. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Hawker Engineering 2 Hawker Aviation 3 Hawker-Siddeley Group 4 End of Hawker 5 External Links Hawker Engineering Hawker Siddley has its roots in the aftermath of the First World War, when after the bankruptcy of Sopwith Aviation, the Sopwith test pilot Harry Hawker, with financial backing, bought the assets of Sopwith and formed H.G. Hawker Engineering. Between the wars Hawker produced a successful line of bombers and fighters for the Royal Air Force. These included the Hart and the Hind. Hawker Aviation Renamed in 1933 to Hawker Aviation, Hawker took.
Hellmuth Walter - were rocket motors for the Messerschmitt Me 163 and Bachem Ba 349 interceptor aircraft, JATO units used for a variety of Luftwaffe aircraft during World War II, and a revolutionary new propulsion system for submarines known as Air Independent Propulsion (AIP). Walter began training as a machinist in 1917 in Hamburg and in 1921 commenced studies in mechanical engineering at the Hamburg Technical Institute. He left before completing these studies, however, in order to take up a position at the Stettiner Maschinenbau AG Vulcan, a major shipyard. Walter’s experience with marine engines here led him to become interested in overcoming some of the limitations of the internal combustion engine. He reasoned that an engine powered by a fuel source already rich with oxygen would not require an external supply of oxygen.
HMAS Arunta - The first HMAS Arunta (D-130) was a Battle class destroyer laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 15 November 1939, launched on 30 November 1940, and commissioned on 30 March 1942. Arunta attacked and sank the enemy Japanese submarine RO-33 off New Guinea on 24 August 1942, and participated in the landings at Lingayen Gulf in January 1945 where she was damaged by enemy Japanese kamikaze aircraft and at Balikpapan in Borneo in July 1945. HMAS Arunta paid off to reserve on 21 December 1956, was sold for scrap to the China Steel Corporation of Taipei in Formosa on 1 November 1968, and sank under tow 65 miles off the New South Wales coast on 13 February 1969. The second HMAS.
Glenn Curtiss - the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. As a bicycle racer, Western Union bicycle messenger and bicycle shop owner Curtis became interested in motorcycles. He began motorizing bicycles with his own single cylinder internal combustion engines, initially made from tomato cans. In 1903 he set a world speed record for motorcyles by averaging 64mph for one mile. In 1907 he set a new record of 136.27mph, riding a 40hp V8 motorcyle of his own design. In August 1906, Curtiss visited the Wright Cycle Company and discussed aeronautical engineering with Wilbur and Orville Wright. They did not cooperate, so Curtiss joined with Alexander Graham Bell and others in the Aerial Experiment Association to build aircraft, succeeding publicly in 1908. In August 1909, Curtiss competed in a Grande Semaine.
F-14 Tomcat - F-14 Tomcat The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a United States Navy supersonic, twin-engine, variable sweep wing, two-place strike fighter. The Tomcat's primary missions are air superiority, fleet air defense and precision strike against ground targets. Sailors prepare an F-14 Tomcat for flight on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (year 2003). The F-14 has visual and all-weather attack capability to deliver Phoenix and Sparrow missiles as well as the M-61 gun and Sidewinder missiles for close in air-to-air combat. The F-14 also has the LANTIRN targeting system that allows delivery of various laser-guided bombs for precision strikes in air-to-ground combat missions. The F-14, equipped with Tactical Air Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS) is the Navy's only manned tactical reconnaissance platform. The F-14 entered.
Fiat - is Italy's largest industrial concern. It also has significant worldwide operations, operating in 61 countries with 1,063 companies that employ over 223,000 people, 111,000 of whom are outside Italy. Fiat built the famous Lingotto car factory, opened in 1923. Fiat corporation, starting from the late 1960s, has bought (or gained control of) a wide range of companies, including: Car companies - the long list includes well known firms like Ferrari, Lancia, Autobianchi (already bought by Lancia), Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Innocenti. Fiat also owns some brands of industrial vehicles including OM and Iveco. Agricultural vehicles - Fiat group also owns CNH Global, New Holland and the Canadian Flexy-Coils Construction vehicles, produced by Fiat-Hitachi Construction and New Holland Construction. Buses - produced with the Fiat, Iveco or Irisbus names Aviation - aircraft.
E-8 Joint STARS - ground forces. The information is relayed in near-real time to the US Army's common ground stations via the secure jam-resistant surveillance and control data link and to other ground command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) nodes beyond line-of-sight via ultra high frequency satellite communications. Radar operating modes include wide area surveillance, moving target indicator (MTI), fixed target indicator (FTI) target classification and synthetic aperture radar. The antenna can be tilted to either side of the aircraft where it can develop a 120-degree field of view covering nearly 50,000 km² (19,305 square miles) and is capable of detecting targets at more than 250 kilometers (more than 820,000 feet). In addition to being able to detect, locate and track large numbers of ground vehicles the radar has some limited capability to detect.
E-2 Hawkeye - E-2 Hawkeye E-2C Hawkeye. The Grumman E-2 Hawkeye is the United States Navy's all-weather, aircraft carrier-based tactical warning and control system aircraft. The Hawkeye provides all-weather airborne early warning and command and control functions for the carrier battle group. Additional missions include surface surveillance coordination, strike and interceptor control, search and rescue guidance and communications relay. An integral component of the carrier air wing, the E-2C uses computerized sensors to provide early warning, threat analyses and control of counteraction against air and surface targets. It is a high-wing aircraft with stacked antennae elements contained in a 24-foot rotating dome above the fuselage. The peculiar airflow over and around the radar dome led to a multiple-surface tail unit. The continuous improvements in early airborne radars by 1956 led to the.
EA-6 Prowler - and the United States Marine Corps's primary electronic warfare aircraft. The primary mission of the aircraft is to support strike aircraft and ground troops by interrupting enemy electronic activity and obtaining tactical electronic intelligence within a combat area. US Navy EA-6B Prowler. The EA-6B Prowler is a twin-engine, mid-wing aircraft manufactured by Northrop Grumman Aerospace Corporation as a modification of the basic A-6 Intruder air frame. Designed for carrier and advanced base operations, the Prowler is a fully integrated electronic warfare system combining long-range, all-weather capabilities with advanced electronic countermeasures. A forward equipment bay, and pod-shaped faring on the vertical fin, house the additional avionics equipment. The side-by-side cockpit arrangement gives maximum efficiency, visibility and comfort. General Characteristics Primary Function: Electronic countermeasures Contractor: Northrop Grumman Aerospace Corporation Propulsion: Two Pratt &.
English Electric - was required to save the company. The man most associated with the company, George Nelson, became managing director in 1930. During the 1930s the company became associated with the electrification of the Southern Railway of England's system, which gave it a strong position in the traction market. English Electric made a substantial contribution to the British war effort during the Second World War. It took over, in 1942, Napiers the aero-engine company, and this helped establish the company's aircraft division. As well as the company's traditional markets in heavy electrical engineering, the post-war era saw developments in aircraft, along with the railway traction business and a foray into domestic markets through the acquisition of the Marconi Company in 1946. Further important companies acquired in 1955 included Vulcan Foundry, and Robert Stephenson.
ERCO aka Ercoupe - ERCO aka Ercoupe ERCO (Engineering and Research Corporation) was started by Henry Berliner in Wasington D.C. Henry was the son of Emile Berliner who had patented numerious inventions relating to sound and acoustics. He founded his company to produce tools for the manufacture of metal aircraft and propellers. Through his work in propellers he met Fred Weick who worked with NACA doing cowling and propeller work. Weick came to work for ERCO and brought the idea of the Ercoupe with him. The Ercoupe is a low wing monoplane first manufactured by the ERCO aircraft company shortly before the second World War. The design evolved out of the Safe Airplane competition in the 1930's and came from the creative mind of Fred Weick. The war interrupted production, but following the war.
USS Seawolf (SSN-575) - hazards for the ship and crew. Although fully armed, Seawolf, like the first nuclear submarine USS Nautilus (SSN-571), was primarily an experimental vessel. Seawolf's keel was laid down 7 September 1953 by the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 21 July 1955 sponsored by Mrs. W. Sterling Cole, and commissioned on 30 March 1957 with Commander R.B. Laning in command. Seawolf departed New London, Connecticut, on 2 April for her shakedown cruise off Bermuda and returned on 8 May. Between 16 May and 5 August, she made two voyages to Key West and participated in intensive training exercises. On 3 September, she steamed across the North Atlantic to participate in NATO exercises. The submarine surfaced off Newport, Rhode Island, on 25 September after.
