I've just received my June Radcom which contained news of the passing of a Walter Blanchard who was involved in the development of Decca Navigator and Loran C, he also worked on a GPS forerunner navigation system called "Transit".
There's an obit at www.rsgb.org/sk which may contain more detail if there's interest. On Wed, 13 May 2020, 17:37 Gary Woods, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2020 09:23:45 -0600, you wrote: > > >Given all his accomplishments, he must have been a > >"Renaissance Time_Nut"! > > My favorite quote from a bio of Loomis; he was shown the super secret > British magnetron, and an engineer was trying to explain how it made > high-power microwaves. > Loomis listened and said, "Oh, it's a whistle!" > (I dealt with it's megawatt descendent in the APS-20 radar). > -- > Gary Woods O- K2AHC Public keys at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic, or > get 0x1D64A93D via keyserver > fingerprint = E2 6F 50 93 7B C7 F3 CA 1F 8B 3C C0 B0 28 68 > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
