Hamilton Standard
Company type | Subsidiary |
---|---|
Industry | Aerospace |
Predecessor | Hamilton Aero Manufacturing and Standard Steel Propeller |
Founded | 1929 |
Defunct | 1999 |
Fate | Merged |
Successor | Hamilton Sundstrand |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Frank W. Caldwell |
Hamilton Standard was an American
History
Standard Steel Propeller had been formed in 1918 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Hamilton Aero Manufacturing had been formed in 1920 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by Thomas F. Hamilton. Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis used a propeller made by Standard Steel Propeller Company in his historic solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. The two companies were merged in 1929 by the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation.[1]
In the early 1930s,
Hamilton Standard was a division of United Aircraft Corporation (1934) along with Pratt & Whitney (engines).
In the early 1950s Hamilton developed the technology to accurately meter fuel in jet engines, and its fuel controls were employed on
General Motors' propeller business, which originated with its purchase of Aeroproducts in 1940, was acquired by Hamilton Standard in 1990.[2]
Mergers
In 1999, the
In 2012 Hamilton Sundstrand merged with Goodrich Corporation to become UTC Aerospace Systems.[3] In 2018, UTC merged UTC Aerospace Systems with Rockwell Collins to form Collins Aerospace.
See also
- List of aircraft propeller manufacturers
- Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529
- Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311
References
- ^ "Announcement". Aero Digest. Vol. 16, no. 1. Aeronautical Digest Publishing Corporation. January 1930. p. 24. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
- ^ "Aeroproducts Propellers". Aircraft Engine Historical Society. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "UTC Aerospace Systems – Ideas Born to Fly". utcaerospacesystems.com.