Royal Australian Air Force | RAAF General Dynamics F-111 | F-111 performing a Fuel dumping # Dump-and-burn | dump-and-burn Fuel dumping | fuel dump at the Australian International Airshow

This system was used successfully in two military projects: field test systems used to check the electronics of the Air Force General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark fighter plane and systems used to control the countdown and launch of the Army's Pershing missile.

* In 2004, General Dynamics completed a study for NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts.

In 1992, General Dynamics announced the sale of Cessna to Textron Inc.

* General Dynamics, defence contractor

* prime contractor: Spectrum Astro, later acquired by General Dynamics

General Dynamics of the United States became its licensee, and the Pentagon awarded its first R & D naval research project in the field of supercavitation.

The Deep Star III built by General Dynamics and an unnamed two-man submersible built by Westinghouse were scheduled to sail but never did.

* Builder: Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Chester, PA ; General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division, Quincy, MA

The 2nd Lieutenant John P. Bobo Class ships are new construction ships delivered to MSC in the mid-1980s from General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division, Quincy, Mass.

* Builders: General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division, Quincy, MA

* National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, a shipyard in San Diego, CA owned by General Dynamics

The Guidance System for the missile was developed by the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and is maintained by a joint Draper / General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems facility.

The fire control system was designed and continues to be maintained by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems.

The Electric Boat Company eventually became General Dynamics Corporation in 1952.

The firm renamed itself General Dynamics Corporation in 1952, and when Convair was acquired the next year, the holding company assumed the " General Dynamics " name, with the submarine building operation retaining the " Electric Boat " name.

* The Defender: The Story of General Dynamics, by Roger Franklin.

* Brotherhood of Arms: General Dynamics and The Business of Defending America, by Jacob Goodwin.

Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, and Edwin C. Kepler of General Electric Company.

Among the more familiar plans for dual-channel advancement is that of General Electric.

Let us look at the heavy-electrical-goods industry in which General Electric, Westinghouse and a number of other manufacturers were recently convicted of engaging in a conspiracy to rig prices and allocate the market.

Naturally, enterprises of the size of General Electric are in a position to structure their prices in such a way that the relatively small competitors can be forced to the wall in a very short time.

The paradox implicit in the whole affair is shown by the demand of the government, after the conviction, that General Electric sign a wide-open consent decree that it would not reduce prices so low as to compete seriously with its fellows.

* Martin Gabel, General Electric Theater ( 4 / 1 / 1962 ; adaptation of " The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim ")

* 1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.

The characters also sold chainsaws, underwear, ties, detergent, candy, soft drinks — including a licensed version of Capp's moonshine creation, Kickapoo Joy Juice — and General Electric and Procter & Gamble products, all requiring special artwork.

Indian-born Ananda Chakrabarty, working for General Electric, had developed a bacterium ( derived from the Pseudomonas genus ) capable of breaking down crude oil, which he proposed to use in treating oil spills.

Burroughs was one of the eight major United States computer companies ( with IBM, the largest, Honeywell, NCR Corporation, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, RCA and UNIVAC ) through most of the 1960s.

On June 26, 2009, Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, called for the U. S. to increase its manufacturing base employment to 20 % of the workforce, commenting that the U. S. has outsourced too much in some areas and can no longer rely on the financial sector and consumer spending to drive demand.

* Recollections of Steinmetz-A Visit to the Workshops of Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Emil J. Remscheid, General Electric Hall of History Foundation, 1977.

Category: General Electric people

The Standoff Land Attack Missile features an ATR unit from General Electric.

CANDU reactors were first developed in the late 1950s and 1960s by a partnership between Atomic Energy of Canada Limited ( AECL ), the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario ( now Ontario Power Generation ), Canadian General Electric ( now GE Canada ), and other companies.

He said: " I wanted to call my company General, but there's so many Generals in the U. S .: General Electric, General Motors.

This led to alliances between Japanese calculator manufacturers and U. S. semiconductor companies: Canon Inc. with Texas Instruments, Hayakawa Electric ( later known as Sharp Corporation ) with North-American Rockwell Microelectronics, Busicom with Mostek and Intel, and General Instrument with Sanyo.

The Compactron is a 12-pin vacuum tube family introduced in 1961 by General Electric in Owensboro, Kentucky to compete with transistorized electronics during the solid state transition.

The first portable color television, the General Electric Porta-Color, was designed using 13 tubes, 10 of which were Compactrons.

Many smaller computer companies had come and gone in the 1950s, wiped out when new technical developments rendered their platforms obsolete, and even large companies like RCA and General Electric were failing to make a profit in the market.

Hall, Sr. ( Hallmark Cards ), Jeffrey R. Immelt ( General Electric ), Gail Koziara Boudreaux ( United Health Care ), Grant Tinker ( NBC ), and Brian Goldner ( Hasbro ).

* 1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.

Concerning information processing, DARPA made great progress, initially through its support of the development of time-sharing ( all modern operating systems rely on concepts invented for the Multics system, developed by a cooperation among Bell Labs, General Electric and MIT, which DARPA supported by funding Project MAC at MIT with an initial two-million-dollar grant ).