Wheels and brakes for Airbus A380

Citation

(2002), "Wheels and brakes for Airbus A380", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 74 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.2002.12774eab.036

Wheels and brakes for Airbus A380

Keywords: Dunlop aerospace, Honeywell aircraft landing systems, Airbus, Contract

A joint proposal by Dunlop Aerospace of the UK and Honeywell Aircraft Landing Systems (ALS) has won the $1.5 billion contract to supply wheels and carbon brakes for the Airbus A380 (Plate 13).

Under this contract, the two companies will collaborate in the design and manufacture of wheels and brakes as the sole-source supplier to the programme. Dunlop will supply the nose wheel and major brake components for all wheels, including the torque tube and advanced carbon friction materials. Honeywell will supply the main wheels as well as a portion of the brake assembly components.

The contract was awarded both as a result of Honeywell's demonstrated technical and organisational success in supplying brakes for the A330/A340 aircraft during the past five years and Dunlop's deployment of new materials technology to achieve the demanding weight targets set by Airbus.

Plate 13 Seated (L-R): Andrew Craig, Commercial managerAirbus UK, Russell Bradley, VP Systems & Procurement Airbus, Otis Byrd, Director of Contracts Honeywell, and John Whelan, Director (VP) Marketing and Business Development Dunlop Aerospace

This is the second major contract won in recent months by Honeywell and Dunlop Aerospace in a joint Anglo-American team. In November, Dunlop Aerospace, Honeywell Aircraft Landing Systems and Crane Hydro-Aire won the contract to supply wheels, brakes and tyres for Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), one of the Pentagon's largest ever defence projects.