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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. Dr "Taffy" Bowen has been called "the father of Airborne Radar" and in Radar Days he tells 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 in 1940. Written from the point of view of the individuals who worked at the laboratory bench, the story begins with the building of the first ground air-warning radar at Orfordness in June 1935 and goes on to describe how this equipment was miniaturised to make it suitable for use in aircraft and the lengthy and sometimes hazardous flight trials conducted before radar went into service with the RAF. Dr Bowen was a member of the Tizard Mission which took Britain's top radar secrets to the USA. The Mission was instrumental in installing the first airborne radars in US aircraft; but perhaps thegreatest achievement was to pass on the secret of the resonant magnetron to the USA only a few months after its invention at Birmingham University. This was the device which brought about a revolution in Allied radar putting it far ahead of the corresponding German technology for the remainder of the war.
Radar Days,Bowen E G,Taylor & Francis,075030586X,Radar,Social Aspects,Technology & Industrial Arts,Air forces & warfare,Biography: general,Science / Physics
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