Here's some photos of projects
I've worked on, created, nurtured, and/or produced. I thought these
might be particularly interesting to my commercial cohorts who have
little concept of what aerospace is about, and vice versa, as well as
my software cohorts regarding hardware, and vice versa. And I mean
real hardware like structures, jet engines, and rockets -- not just
computers.
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Cubic used a lot of technology to
manage fare collection for large transit systems worldwide.
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Cybersensor's websites made extensive
use of javascript servlets & dynamic HTML to provide users with
flyover menus and configurable, tree-style user interfaces.
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Lunar's new Prodigy combines a
Cad-Zinc-Telluride array detector with a slick NT user interface.
More notably, the software is very extensible with extensive exception
handling and unique error reporting.
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Lunar's Achilles Express is half the
size and cost of it's predecessor. Inflated membranes enable the benefits
of ultrasound water coupling while keeping the user "dry".
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DIRECTV's Castle Rock
Broadcast Center, 30 miles south of Denver, Colorado
provides 175+ channels thru a pizza-size home dish to the
whole USA.
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CRBC's main operator consoles and
lots of software allow this facility to operate with less
than one staff per channel for a full 7/24.
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Convair's AGM-129A Advanced
Cruise Missile, a direct descendant of one of my DARPA
initiatives that was nick-named Teal Dawn
(gee, I wonder where he came up with that name?). No, the picture
is not upside down and backward, and do not let anyone tell you how easy
it is to design forward swept wings with today's modern structural
analysis software.
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Submunitions precisely dispensed
and delivered (here by Convair's Tomahawk) after flying
autonomously for hundreds of miles; UTC's Advanced Systems
Division developed similar dispensers for Northrop's
Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile (TSSAM).
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Philips Medical's Image
Processing Module (IPM) still needed specialized hardware in
the eighties for Digital Subtraction Angiography and digital
Radiography.
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General Dynamics Convair's
Tomahawk of Desert Storm fame. We'll never think of a milk
factory the same again. It was nice to see that all that
systems engineering and autonomous precision guidance
actually worked very well.
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MRASM was a reduced-cost,
joint-service, non-nuclear, air-launched derivative of
Tomahawk.
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The Boosted Kinetic Energy
Penetrator (BKEP) runway buster was one of MRASM's many
payloads and missions.
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An imaging laser radar scene
circa 1977 -- one of my DARPA "zero-CEP" initiatives. The
pseudo-color corresponds to distance. FYI, a scene's
geometry is much more stable and harder to hide than its
intensity.
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Playing on the Tail of the Dragon with
my latest toy, a 2004 Yamaha FZ6. |
I further regressed and
built an N-Scale train layout in the alcove above the
fireplace in our Wisconsin playroom.
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It started out with buying a
pretty little model of a steam engine for the train line
that ran across the river from where Alicia grew up.
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Of course, then I needed to buy
some track and cars, and then a model of a coal mine, and
then...
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I'm now trying to convince myself
that this is big enough and that I really don't need more
practice in landscaping, my new CAD program for rail
layouts, and other such new skills.
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