ITT CANNON CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION A History of Connecting the World in Flight 1930s –1940s 1940s –1950s 1950s –1960s early commercial aviation dawn of the jet age the “golden age” of air travel Douglas DC-3, 1933 de Havilland Comet, 1949 Boeing 707, 1957 24 18 6 12 took required carried what took now took more 50 6x Trans-Atlantic travel 15 3 21 percent faster 20 10 as many passengers hours refueling stops passengers than propeller hours hours in the Boeing 707 transport than in the Comet by air than by sea in 1958 CANNON AF PLUG CANNON K PLUG CANNON D-SUB CONNECTOR Used on the historic all-metal DC series, The first connector specifically The first multipurpose connector that provided it connected 42 wires from the engine designed for aircraft equipment, the aviation industry with a compact, lightweight, through the firewall. including radios, lamps and call systems. high circuit capacity electrical component. 1960s –1970s 1970s –1980s 1980s –1990s building them bigger breaking the sound barrier flying into the computer age Boeing 747, 1969 BAC/Sud Aviation Concorde, 1976 Boeing 777, 1994 =10 A new collision avoidance system reduced mid-air collisions to only1 in 130 passengers The wing area the wing area of 100,000,000 of the 747 the Wright Brothers’ flight hours jumbo jet is12x first flight flyer 2x speed of sound With a capacity of nearly the 747 held the world record for The 777 was the1st 500 hours passenger airliner designed largest passenger years transport for37 3 entirely on computer CANNON ARINC 600 CANNON PV CONNECTOR CANNON FIBER OPTICS The front release version of this A harsh-environment connector PlaneNET was a fiber optic system that could withstand the vibration that connected various functions within connector ushered in new specification requirements for the avionics industry. of the Concorde’s supersonic speeds. the aircraft. 2000s –2010s ...and Beyond new frontiers the future of flight Airbus A380, 2005 Lockheed Martin N+2 Global GPS tracking will improve 100,000 from 30% to flights are in the air each day 100% Smart materials may enable self-healing electronics for 3.5 unprecedented safety, Leading a history of firsts billion people efficiency and fly each year comfort in civil aviation CANNON OCTOGIG This ultra high speed, light-weight, high-bandwidth 10 Gb Ethernet connector offers a significant increase in data transfer rates..