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22 unusual facts about General Dynamics


Alvis plc

In 2004, the board of Alvis approved a £309m takeover bid by the American defence company General Dynamics.

Control–feedback–abort loop

In 1986, Mr. LeDoux, with assistance from Mr. Warren Yates, a former engineer from General Dynamics, Inc., found that using a Control and Feedback concept for analyzing group and system dynamics was not providing them with the full picture when systems were going out of control.

COSYSMO

Initially developed in 2002, the model now contains a calibration data set of more than 50 projects provided by major aerospace and defense companies such as Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, SAIC, General Dynamics, and BAE Systems.

David Medved

After obtaining a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, he worked for Convair/General Dynamics in San Diego, where he developed systems to destroy intercontinental missiles during flight.

Diver propulsion vehicle

:Developed by Anteon Corp, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics since 2006, the 107 kg Sea Shadow is for one or two crew and powered by lead-acid batteries.

Exis Interactive

In addition to conventional game development contracts, Exis also performed contracts for simulation companies such as General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman.

G7 howitzer

In 2004, DLS partnered with General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) to offer the gun in self-propelled form to the United States Army.

General Dynamics Land Systems – Australia

GDLS-A reports operationally to General Dynamics Land Systems – Canada (GDLS-C) a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics.

General Dynamics/Grumman EF-111A Raven

On 17 January 1991, a USAF EF-111 crew of Captain James Denton and Captain Brent Brandon ("Brandini") achieved an unofficial kill against an Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1, which they managed to maneuver into the ground, making it the only member of the F-111/FB-111/EF-111 family to achieve an aerial victory over another aircraft.

GeoEye-2

Lockheed Martin, the builder of IKONOS, has been selected as the builder of the satellite platform over General Dynamics the builder of GeoEye-1.

Jefferson Howard Sutton

He then worked in editorial public relations for General Dynamics, an experience he used when writing his novel The Missile Lords a few years later.

John Jay Hopkins

John Jay Hopkins (October 15, 1893 - May 3, 1957) was founder and president of General Dynamics from 1952 to 1957.

In 1948, as president of Electric Boat, he purchased Canadair and created General Dynamics from that foundation in 1952.

Klaus Traube

He then lived abroad for some time (he worked for General Dynamics in San Diego).

Lawrence J. Fogel

He worked at Stavid Engineering (New Jersey, NJ) and Convair, a division of General Dynamics (San Diego, CA).

Liquid air cycle engine

Both Marquardt and General Dynamics were involved in the research, and by late 1960 Marquardt had a testbed system running that was capable of running a 275 lbf (1.2 kN) thrust engine for minutes at a time.

RAAF Washington Flying Unit

Following their arrival in the United States, the Australian airmen were provided with training on the F-111 by General Dynamics.

Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps

NZLAV - the NZLAV armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) is a variant of the General Dynamics LAV III.

SONACA

From 1979 to 1991 SONACA produced 220 F-16, for both the Belgian and Danish Air Forces, under license from US company General Dynamics.

SPARCbook

The SPARCbook is a line of laptop computers based on SPARC microprocessors produced by Tadpole Computer (now General Dynamics).

Van Arsdale France

Prior to working for Disney, his skills in labor relations landed France a job as director of education for the Fort Worth Division of General Dynamics.

Viaspace

Ionfinity is partnered with General Dynamics Corp., Sionex Corp., and Imaginative Technologies LLC.


Apollo D-2

On October 25, NASA awarded the $250,000, six-month contracts to General Dynamics/Convair, General Electric, and the Glenn L. Martin Company.

Benjamin S. Blanchard

In 1953 he moved to industry working as engineer in the fields of design, field service, staff and management with Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Sanders Associates, Bendix Corporation, and General Dynamics.

Charactron

The technical expertise, and trademarks, for the Charactron ultimately passed to Stromberg-Carlson, General Dynamics, Stromberg DatagraphiX, Anacomp, and finally Lexel Imaging Systems.

Cornfield Bomber

This individual F-106A Delta Dart was manufactured by Convair, later part of General Dynamics, during 1958, and received the tail number 58-0787.

Frank Carlucci

He also has business interests in the following companies: General Dynamics, Westinghouse, Ashland Oil, Neurogen, CB Commercial Real Estate, Nortel, BDM International, Quaker Oats, and Kaman.

George Tscherny

His corporate clients included Ernst & Whinney, Monadnock Paper Mills, The Ford Foundation, Pan Am, General Dynamics and Johnson & Johnson.

LAV-25

:LAV fitted with an electric turret mounting a General Dynamics GAU-12 Equalizer 25 mm (0.984 in) 5-barreled Gatling cannon, and two missile pods each with 4× FIM-92 Stinger missiles for Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD) duties.

Michael Dukakis tank photograph

On September 13, 1988, Democratic US presidential candidate Dukakis visited the General Dynamics Land Systems plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan to take part in a photo op in an M1 Abrams tank.

Michael Wynne

#July 1997 - October 1999, Senior Vice President, General Dynamics, Falls Church, Virginia

MIM-46 Mauler

The General Dynamics MIM-46 Mauler was a self-propelled anti-aircraft missile system designed to a late 1950s US Army requirement for a system to combat low-flying high-performance tactical fighters and short-range ballistic missiles.

Project Scorpion

Larger defense companies serving as lead-system integrators for Project Scorpion include Northrop Grumman/EADS, Raytheon/Thales and General Dynamics, SAIC, SAGEM, Lockheed Martin Marietta and Boeing.

Thomas J.R. Hughes

Hughes began his career as a mechanical design engineer at Grumman Aerospace, subsequently joining General Dynamics as a research and development engineer.

Wyle Laboratories

In January 2005, Wyle acquired the General Dynamics Aeronautics division, formerly a part of Veridian, adding aviation research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) expertise to the Company's portfolio.