1920s Honeywell! The Roaring 20s were a glamorous age for aviation and Honeywell legacy companies played critical roles in two of the biggest achievements of the decade. Charles Lindbergh’s historic solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927 and Jimmy Doolittle’s first instruments only “blind flight” in 1929. Pioneer Aviation refined the Earth Inductor Compass that equipped Lindbergh’s “Spirit of St. Louis” on the trans-Atlantic flight that captured the world’s imagination. The compass, which compensated for weaknesses in standard magnetic compasses, provided Lindy with the most reliable and stable instrument available at the time. Lindbergh’s aircraft also was equipped with brakes from another Honeywell legacy company, Bendix. Jimmy Doolittle flew the first successful all-blind flight from take-off to landing using the Sperry Gyro Horizon and Sperry Directional Gyro. Doolittle took off in a dense fog under a hooded cockpit (with an unhooded safety pilot) in a Consolidated NY-2 biplane from Mitchell Field, Long Island, circled the field and landed without once seeing outside the airplane - proving the practicality of instruments-only flight. Honeywell Aerospace has been the go-to provider of navigation and display systems for decades. Our strengths include inertial sensors and accelerometers, inertial navigation systems and defence surface navigation. Honeywell was a leader in the evolution from electromechanical instruments to cathode ray tube displays and from CRTs to high-performance colour liquid crystal displays.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 06:05:54 +0000
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