231 Pages
by
CRC Press
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It is now more than sixty years since radar began in Britain. In the intervening years, airborne radar has become one of the most important branches of civilian and military radar. In Radar Days, "the father of airborne radar," Dr. "Taffy" Bowen recounts his personal story of how the first airborne radars were built and brought into use in the Royal Air Force, and of the Tizard mission to the USA... Read more
The beginning of radar in Britain. The early development of airborne radar. Sea search and some tales of "D" Flight. Air-interception trials in Battles and Blenheims. The outbreak of war and the move from Bawdsey. Air to surface vessel radar against ships and submarines. Introduction of air-interception radar into service. The move from St Athan to Swanage. The transition from metre to centimetre waves. The Tizard mission to the USA and Canada. The resonant magnetron and Bell Laboratory. Formation of the radiation laboratory.
Biography
E.G. Bowen
