Keith Products, a Meggitt Group Company, Receives Vapor Cycle Cooling System Contract for New Cessna CJ4.ADDISON, Texas Addison is a city in Dallas County, Texas (USA). The population was 14,166 at the 2000 census. Addison is a northern suburb of Dallas. The city calls itself the Town of Addison but it is incorporated as a city. -- Keith Products, a Meggitt group company, announced today that it has received a contract from Cessna to develop and provide a Vapor Cycle Vapor cycle A thermodynamic cycle, operating as a heat engine or a heat pump, during which the working substance is in, or passes through, the vapor state. A vapor is a substance at or near its condensation point. It may be wet, dry, or slightly superheated. Cooling System cooling system: see air conditioning; internal-combustion engine; refrigeration. cooling system Apparatus used to keep the temperature of a structure or device from exceeding limits imposed by needs of safety and efficiency. for the Citation CJ4. The Citation CJ4 is currently under development and is the latest and largest of Cessna's line of CJ business jets. Keith Products has a long-established business relationship with Cessna, a Textron Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TXT TXT Text TXT Text File (filename extension) TXT Textile TXT Teletext TXT Tecnologia per a Tothom TXT Textron Corporation (stock symbol) ) company. It has been supplying air conditioning systems for the company's single engine aircraft for several years. Terry Holburn, Keith Products Vice President of Sales & Marketing, said, "The system we are developing for the Citation CJ4 will be state-of-the-art for business jet aircraft. It will feature the company's new brushless DC motor technology for both the compressor drive and the evaporator blowers." The Citation CJ4 will join the CJ1+, CJ2+ and CJ3, which have amassed more than 900 airplanes in the fleet with more than 1.3 million flight hours. EDITOR'S NOTES: 1) Located in Addison, Texas, Keith Products is a leader in vapor cycle air conditioning systems providing cooling, heating and ventilation for fixed wing aircraft and helicopters. The company has the largest product listing of Supplemental Type Certificates for air conditioning units in the world and is a major supplier to original equipment manufacturers such as Cessna, Learjet, Hawker Beechcraft, Sikorsky and Eurocopter. 2) Keith Products is part of the Meggitt Thermal Systems group which designs and produces environmental control systems and components including high and low pressure ducting duct·ing n. 1. A duct or system of ducts. 2. Material for making ducts. , engine inlet and wing ice protection, heat exchangers, valves, bleed air leak detection sensors and controllers. 3) Headquartered in the UK, Meggitt PLC (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :MGGT) is an international group of companies operating in North America, Europe and Asia. Known for its specialized extreme engineering, Meggitt is a world leader in the aerospace, defense and electronics industries. |
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