Introduction to Airborne Radar

Introduction to Airborne Radar is the revision of the classic book privately published by Hughes Aircraft Company in 1983. The first edition sold more than 40,000 copies. The second edition contains 13 entirely new chapters covering technological advances developed since the first publication. In addition, two chapters considered obsolete were deleted, three chapters were extensively rewritten, and two chapters were given new sections. This is the only text that completely covers the wide range of techniques employed in modern airborne and space-based radar. It fulfills the need of all those who want to learn about radar, regardless of their technical backgrounds. Lavishly produced in full color, the book contains over 1100 graphics. Virtually every concept is illustrated with a simple diagram that appears adjacent to the text it illustrates. Every illustration is accompanied by a concise caption, enabling it to stand on its own. Readers can quickly review a chapter's entire content simply by scanning the illustrations. Another feature of the book is marginal sidenotes that present exceptions, caveats, and other comments without detracting from the simplicity and clarity of the text. They are placed directly opposite the materials to which they apply. Blue panels give supplementary or more detailed explanation of the concepts presented. Readers can skip these notes on their first reading. A popular feature that brings the book to life is the inclusion of real-life examples of airborne radar, including military and civil applications, advanced radar techniques, battlefield surveillance and target acquisition, stealth technology, and more. Copublished with SciTech Publishing.

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Beginning at a level that requires only basic algebra, a little trigonometry, and physics, describes the full range of airborne radar techniques. Technical and ancillary material is placed in shaded boxes so the reader can skip come back to later if. No date is noted for the first edition. The second includes 12 new chapters on such topics as electronically steered array antennas, low-probability of intercept techniques, electronic countermeasures and counter countermeasures, multi-frequency operation and small-signal target detection, and advanced airborne digital processing architectures. Highly illustrated with graphics and drawings visualizing technical concepts and paintings and photographs of radar-bearing aircraft spanning the history of the field since 1940. Suitable as a text for a course or self-study. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

George Stimson became fascinated with radio waves as a teenage amateur radio enthusiast, designing and building transmitters and receivers.

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.