EBACE Show News - May 20, 2008 - (Page 62) EBACE 2008 Honeywell Celebrates a Run of Wins Honeywell (Booth 322) comes to EBACE this year riding a wave of wins, some of them badly needed and some of them evolutionary. Together they reflect the success of the reorganization and grouping of Honeywell’s businesses into market-aligned units that was instigated three years ago, says Rob Wilson, president of Business & General Aviation at Honeywell Aerospace. “Our ability to invest in the right products to make a difference for business aviation is a result of the way we restructured. It should pay off for our customers, and it should pay off for us,” he told Show News. • First, Embraer ended a five-year quest to win a second application for the HTF7000 family of engines, which entered service in January 2005 on the Bombardier Challenger 300. Now the HTF7500-E derivative will power the Embraer Midsize Jet (MSJ) and Midlight Jet (MLJ) in a deal, Honeywell says, that could total an astonishing $23 billion over the life of the program. Honeywell refuses to say how it arrived at that $23 billion figure (it comes out at $27 million per aircraft based on Embraer’s hopes to sell 2,780 of the jets over the next decade), despite rules on forward-looking statements. So what else then does Honeywell have going with Embraer to add up to $23 billion? Wilson won’t say, except for also winning the APUs. He pointed out that major selling points at Embraer were the HTF7000’s unprecedented record of 99.7% dispatch reliability and not a single in-flight shutdown on the 600 in service, plus Honeywell’s commitment to technology infusion into the HTF family through development of the 10,000-pounds -thrust HTF10000. “I think their biggest concern was to have an engine that was going to remain competitive Rob Wilson credits organization foresight for a recent spate of Honeywell program wins, for the life of the airplane looking forward 20 years,” Wilson said. • Second, Honeywell finally has begun supplying top-notch glass cockpits to smaller business aviation manufacturers. Yes, it won the ultra-modern cockpit for the brand new Gulfstream G650, but its re-thought Primus Apex avionics suite also won places on the Spectrum jet, the Chinese Harbin Y-12 and the Viking Twin Otter, as well as certification on the Pilatus PC-12NG. It is also on the Grob SPn. So why did Honeywell not win the avionics on the Embraer jets too? “We looked at it and said we were unable to offer the right match of performance versus value that Embraer was looking for on that particular airplane,” said Wilson. In other words, it was too expensive. “But with the HTF7500 engine we are basically building on our legacy at Embraer,” said Wilson. —John Morris High-End G650 Radar Honeywell’s $3 billion win on the top-of-the-line Gulfstream G650 includes the first business jet application of the RDR-4000 full three-dimensional weather radar used on the Airbus A380, Boeing 777 and Boeing C-17 transports. A main issue was reducing the size of the antenna to fit the nose of a business jet, but this now has been done, and the radar will be standard equipment on the G650. The RDR-4000 gathers an enormous amount of data on the airspace ahead of the aircraft from the surface to 60,000 ft. and out to 320 nmi, storing it all in memory. The pilots can slice and dice the data at the touch of a button to size up a storm with a variety of horizontal and vertical views, giving an unprecedented three-dimensional picture of the weather ahead. The radar also provides enhanced turbulence detection and predictive windshear alerts. Other Honeywell equipment on the G650 includes a standard synthetic vision primary flight display (SV-PFD) that builds on the G550’s Plane View cockpit by fusing terrain data and advanced HUD symbology into the IPFD. SV-PFD is the first Part 25 certified synthetic vision system and is available as options for Gulfstream G350, G450, G500 and G550 aircraft. And Honeywell’s next-generation FMS will accommodate all the future requirements of the European Single Sky and FAA Next Generation air traffic management systems to enable to most fuel-efficient use of airspace. Are you looking for a new level RILQpLJKWFRQQHFWLYLW\IRU your aircraft? Attend our FREE seminar on SwiftBroadband. A concise, practical introduction to Inmarsat’s COSTEFFECTIVE ALWAYSCONNECTED INßIGHT connectivity service. #ONGRESS#ENTREq2OOM% AMqPM 7EDNESDAY-AY 2EFRESHMENTSWILLBEAVAILABLE inmarsat.com/swiftbroadband The mobile satellite company TM http://inmarsat.com/swiftbroadband
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