You’re correct, I was shooting off the cuff. I just reread microwave oven theory of operation and my bad; I confused ionization with EMF heating in polarized water molecules. I’m gonna mail in my license; guess this Boomer’s been retired too long? Love your name…you ever play with lasers, as in boosting their power? Fun stuff. This guy gets-it;
I edited the final draft of the winning proposal for the YAL-1A airborne laser. I started with preliminary design studies in the late 1970s and ended with mission analysis work in the 2010s. That was when Boeing still had a technical edge.
Wow…SO impressed!! I worked for Boeing 11 years then migrated to Lockheed overseas. I finished my career with NATO AWACS. Were you involved integrating the TRW weapons package? Cool article;
Sorry. I'm not at all familiar with any TRW weapons package. I had very little interaction with the AWACS program (ran one proposal to install an infrared sensor on the airframe, and did some field of view analyses for potential installation of phased array communication antennas).
My other claim to fame was to invent an approach to using solid propellant in a kinetic kill vehicle, later developed under the Lightweight Exo-Atmospheric Projectile program. Couldn't find any customers, so Boeing dropped the idea. The propulsion technology was picked up by Raytheon who later developed it into the KKV warhead for the Standard 3 missile. I saw a cutaway model one time at a professional conference. It looked like what our 2nd generation KKV would have been.
Well, being in Aerospace yourself I gotta ask? What's your "take" on the status of OUR Anti-grav tech? Been interested in all forms of flight since childhood, and I'm of the opinion we've already got such tech.
That USAF link I posted describes TRW’s involvement with your laser payload. I guess it was installed at Edwards. Anyway, well even tho there weren’t any customer’s it’s pretty rewarding to see your work be put into fruition? I enjoyed the AWACS platform as it took me overseas and my work rewriting the Maintenance Manuals and schematics got me to NATO. Later with Lockheed I fielded the first (large) Aerostat into Iraq then Afghanistan as a force protection platform. I dug into the L3 MX-20 multi camera system working on laser designator upgrades. I miss my Aerospace career as health concerns sidelined me a decade early, and now busy writing my memoirs/experiences.
You’re correct, I was shooting off the cuff. I just reread microwave oven theory of operation and my bad; I confused ionization with EMF heating in polarized water molecules. I’m gonna mail in my license; guess this Boomer’s been retired too long? Love your name…you ever play with lasers, as in boosting their power? Fun stuff. This guy gets-it;
https://youtu.be/IzUoe-9bKa0
I edited the final draft of the winning proposal for the YAL-1A airborne laser. I started with preliminary design studies in the late 1970s and ended with mission analysis work in the 2010s. That was when Boeing still had a technical edge.
Wow…SO impressed!! I worked for Boeing 11 years then migrated to Lockheed overseas. I finished my career with NATO AWACS. Were you involved integrating the TRW weapons package? Cool article;
https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/abl/
Sorry. I'm not at all familiar with any TRW weapons package. I had very little interaction with the AWACS program (ran one proposal to install an infrared sensor on the airframe, and did some field of view analyses for potential installation of phased array communication antennas).
My other claim to fame was to invent an approach to using solid propellant in a kinetic kill vehicle, later developed under the Lightweight Exo-Atmospheric Projectile program. Couldn't find any customers, so Boeing dropped the idea. The propulsion technology was picked up by Raytheon who later developed it into the KKV warhead for the Standard 3 missile. I saw a cutaway model one time at a professional conference. It looked like what our 2nd generation KKV would have been.
Well, being in Aerospace yourself I gotta ask? What's your "take" on the status of OUR Anti-grav tech? Been interested in all forms of flight since childhood, and I'm of the opinion we've already got such tech.
That USAF link I posted describes TRW’s involvement with your laser payload. I guess it was installed at Edwards. Anyway, well even tho there weren’t any customer’s it’s pretty rewarding to see your work be put into fruition? I enjoyed the AWACS platform as it took me overseas and my work rewriting the Maintenance Manuals and schematics got me to NATO. Later with Lockheed I fielded the first (large) Aerostat into Iraq then Afghanistan as a force protection platform. I dug into the L3 MX-20 multi camera system working on laser designator upgrades. I miss my Aerospace career as health concerns sidelined me a decade early, and now busy writing my memoirs/experiences.