drobson Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 This interested me because I worked for the “Original Frontier†for 23+ years, and worked this aircraft a lot. https://aerospace.honeywell.com/en/blogs/2019/april/honeywell-s-convair-580-aircraft-retires-after-67-years#.XMRyvZVZYSM.facebook Darrell [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 I didn't know Honeywell made aircraft. Thought it was just FMCs and other stuff. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger1962 Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 I didn't know Honeywell made aircraft. Thought it was just FMCs and other stuff. I thought Convair was a separate company? My parents had a Honeywell central heating thermostat in their house for years... Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..." Xbox Series X, Asus Prime H510M-K, Intel Core i5-11400F 4.40GHz, 16Gb DDR4 3200, 2TB WD Black NVME SSD, 1TB Samsung SATA SSD NVidia RTX3060 Ti 8Gb, Logitech Flight Yoke System, CH Pro Pedals, Acer K272HL 27", Windows 11 Home x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drobson Posted April 27, 2019 Author Share Posted April 27, 2019 Convair made the aircraft. The timeline shows the history of owners throughout the years. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnuss Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 I thought Convair was a separate company? From Wikipedia: Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft. In 1953 it was purchased by General Dynamics, and operated as their Convair Division for most of its corporate history. I didn't know Honeywell made aircraft. Thought it was just FMCs and other stuff. It is a Convair 580 owned by Honeywell and, according to the article, used by them to test avionics innovations, etc. Larry N. As Skylab would say: Remember: Aviation is NOT an exact Science! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnuss Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 Neat stuff Darrell. Thanks. Larry N. As Skylab would say: Remember: Aviation is NOT an exact Science! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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