Cliff Garrett

John Clifford " Cliff" Garrett ( b. 1908 in Seattle, Washington, † June 22, 1963 ) was an American businessman in the aviation and aerospace industry. His company operated in its history under several names, among which Garrett AiResearch was the most famous.

Garrett began in 1926 as a warehouse clerk at California's aircraft manufacturer Lockheed. With the vision of cheap flights from long range than 12,000 feet ( 3657.48 meters) allow, Garrett made ​​independent in 1936 and experimented with pressure compensation. The first ridiculed by the U.S. military idea was realized already in the Second World War in the form of pressurized cabins of the Boeing B-29. After the war, the technology was also used in airliners like the French Sud Aviation Caravelle and the Boeing 707. In addition to the pressurized cabin with air conditioning, the Garrett Corporation built many more components for the aerospace industry. For the latter developed Garretts companies for the Mercury program and the Apollo program, the oxygen systems of the space capsules. 1962 continued the Garrett AirResearch $ 206 million to a profit of $ 5,000,000. However, the most well-known products should be aircraft drives the turbo-prop design.

In 1960, Garrett got into the music business, and founded the record company CG Recording Corporation. However, the number of plates productions of both labels and CG Records Infinity Records remained manageable.

Cliff Garrett died in 1963. Among his company name turbochargers are to this day made ​​, after several acquisitions since 1999 under the umbrella of Honeywell International. His awards honor the Society of Automotive Engineers since 1984 every year the Cliff Garrett Turbomachinery and Applications Engineering Award for outstanding engineering achievements in the field of turbo - drives. At the airport of Anniston, Alabama has been a road with a subsidiary of Honeywell " Gliff Garrett Drive" named in his honor.