Fundamentally, we have broken our aerospace business into three parts - large parts which go into the wings and fuselage, components for jet engines, and specialised structural components for landing gear.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.
I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.
Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.
Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
UTC Aerospace Systems has a couple of million dollars of content on every single aircraft that gets delivered. That's the chutes, the electric system, rotors, etc.
If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.
The process of building a part doesn't really stop.
Boeing does a great job in introducing product that kind of changes the game.
We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.
We produce motor drive electronics; we produce cargo systems for large narrow-body and wide-body airplanes and, more importantly, the emergency escape chute that goes on these planes.