Homer J. Wood

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Homer J. Wood was an engineer at Garrett AiResearch, who did pioneering work in gas turbine engines for aircraft applications.^[1]^[2] He won the Wright Brothers Medal in 1949 with Frederick Dallenbach for a paper^[3] discussing auxiliary turbines to supply pneumatic power for aircraft based on the Garrett GTC43/44 and GTP70 units.^[2] Wood went on to design the GTC85, one of the most widely used auxiliary power units in commercial and military aviation.^[2]

Garrett AiResearch GTC85 auxiliary power unit

References

↑ American Aviation (1949) 13, 30.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Leyes, R. A. and Fleming, W. A. (1999) The History of North American Small Gas Turbine Aircraft Engines, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reston VA.
↑ H.J. Wood and F. Dallenbach (1950) Auxiliary Gas Turbines for Pneumatic Power in Aircraft Applications, SAE Quarterly Transactions 4, 197.

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v t e AlliedSignal

Subsidiaries	Allied Corporation Garrett AiResearch Solvay Process Company

Allied Corporation	Bendix Corporation Eugene Meyer William Ripley Nichols

Garrett AiResearch	Central Air Data Computer Frederick Dallenbach Cliff Garrett Homer J. Wood

Related	Honeywell

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