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His first brush with radar, which came in the early years of World War II, was bouncing echoes off Navy blimps in between experiments outside the ultra-high frequency lab at Stanford University. Upon receiving his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, he did some additional course work at Caltech, went through the Navy's radar schools at Bowdoin and MIT, and wound up as an electronics officer on an attack transport.
Following the war, he served as an engineer on Southern California Edison's frequency-change project and at its completion joined Northrop's Snark Missile project. There quite by chance he became involved in technical publications and motion pictures.
In 1951, he was hired by Hughes Aircraft Company to write a widely circulated technical periodical called the Radar Interceptor. Working closely with the company's top designers, in the ensuing years he observed first hand the fascinating evolution of airborne radar from the simple systems for the first all-weather interceptors to the advanced pulsed Doppler systems of today. He witnessed the development of the first radar-guided air-to-air missiles, the first incorporation of digital computers in small airborne radars, the birth of laser radar (SAR), and the programmable digital signal processor; and he saw the extension of airborne radar technology to space applications.
He's taught a short course in modern radar at the National Test Pilots School in Mojave, California, produced a fully narrated interactive multimedia presentation on the new HYSAR radar, and written the article on radar for the 1998 edition of the Encyclopedia Americana.
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