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Overview
Radar Days It is now more than fifty 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 this book Radar Days he has told a personal story of how the first airborne radars were built and how they were brought into use in the Royal Air Force. The book is written from the point of view of the individuals who worked at the laboratory bench; beginning with the building of the first British air-warning radar at Orfordness in June 1935, the story goes on to describe how this equipment was miniaturised to make it suitable for use in aircraft. It describes the lengthy and sometimes hazardous flight trials which took place before radar went into service with the RAF.Dr Bowen was a member of the Tizard Mission which took Britain's top secrets to the USA in 1940. The Mission was instrumental in installing the first airborne radars in the USA; but perhaps its greatest achievement was that it passed the secret of the resonant magnetron to the USA only a few months after it was invented at Birmingham University. This was the device which brought about a revolution in Allied radar and which put the Allies far in front of corresponding German technology for the remainder of the war. The book concludes with an update on radar developments since the war and some of its applications.
Book Details
Published
January 1, 1987
Publisher
Institute of Physics Publishing
Pages
231
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780852745908