Cliff Garrett

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John Clifford "Cliff" Garrett (born March 8, 1908 in Seattle , † June 22, 1963 in Los Angeles ) was an American entrepreneur in the aerospace industry. His company has operated under several names in its history, of which Garrett AiResearch was the best known.

Garrett started as a warehouse clerk at the Californian aircraft manufacturer Lockheed in 1926 . With the vision of making inexpensive long-range flights possible over 12,000 feet (3,657.48 meters), Garrett went freelance in 1936 and experimented with pressure equalization . The idea, initially ridiculed by the American military, was already implemented in the form of the Boeing B-29 pressurized cabins during World War II . After the war, the technology was also used in airliners such as the French Sud Aviation Caravelle and the Boeing 707 . In addition to the pressurized cabins and air conditioning systems, the Garrett Corporation built many other components for the aerospace industry. For the latter, Garrett's company developed the space capsule oxygen systems for the Mercury program and the Apollo program . In 1962, Garrett AirResearch had sales of $ 206 million on a profit of $ 5 million. The best-known products, however, were aircraft propulsion systems of the turboprop design.

In 1960 Garrett entered the music business and founded the recording company CG Recording Corporation . The number of record productions of the two labels CG Records and Infinity Records remained manageable.

Cliff Garrett died in 1963. Turbochargers are still manufactured under his company name , after several company takeovers since 1999 under the umbrella of Honeywell International . In his honor, the Society of Automotive Engineers has presented the Cliff Garrett Turbomachinery and Applications Engineering Award annually since 1984 for outstanding engineering achievements in the field of turbo drives. At Anniston , Alabama Airport , a Honeywell branch street was named "Cliff Garrett Drive" in his honor.

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  1. ^ Built on Thin Air. In: Time Magazine. November 16, 1962, accessed June 26, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Billboard Magazine, Jan. 18, 1960, p. 14.
  3. ^ Cliff Garrett Turbomachinery and Applications Engineering Award. (No longer available online.) SEA International, archived from the original on January 26, 2011 ; accessed on June 26, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sae.org
personal data
SURNAME Garrett, Cliff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garrett, John Clifford
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American aerospace entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1963
Place of death los Angeles