Suspected counterfeit components found in ejection seat after fatal F-16 crash

Re:Suspected counterfeit components found in ejection seat a... by gumby on Thursday September 15, 2022 @01:01AM (#32847249)

It could be! The company was from the 60s and made a lot of electronics. *dyne names were not unusual, so a movie director in the 80s who had been a kid in the 50s and 60s would have been quite comfortable with such a name.

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Re:Suspected counterfeit components found in ejection seat a... by Steve44 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @05:11AM (#32849152)

To add to the examples of the name is the 1950s Fairey Rotodyne[1], a hybrid aircraft-helicopter-gyrocopter with jet exhausts in the tips of the rotor blades.

There is a 1954 prototype[2] at the fabulous but small Museum of Berkshire Aviation near Reading, about 30 miles west of London.

[1] http://www.hmfriends.org.uk/faireyrotodyne.htm

[2] https://museumofberkshireaviation.co.uk/html/exhibits/gyrody...

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Re:Suspected counterfeit components found in ejection seat a... by andylynch on Thursday September 15, 2022 @02:36AM (#32847946)

I think you’re spot on. Another really good example which lampshades this is Nordyne Defense Dynamics, Kwik-E-Mart’s corporate owner in The Simpsons.

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Re:Suspected counterfeit components found in ejection seat a... by simonh on Thursday September 15, 2022 @03:10AM (#32848181)

Or Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems “The future begins tomorrow” from Buckaroo Banzai. Based on Yoyodyne from the Pynchon novel V.

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