Career Photos

 
USAF Electronic Countermeasures
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September 1961: My mother took this photo
when I left for Lackland Air Force Base, Texas
My first time on an airplane.

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Basic Training. Look Ma. No stripes!

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Dress blues for basic training graduation. Me - back row, third from the left

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Electronics, Biloxi, Mississippi. Me - back row, third from the left again

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In school I was trained on the ALT-7 ECM Transmitter
The transmitter (right) and its Power Supply looked like this.

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X-band waves traveled through "waveguide" instead of wire

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An ECM S-band and X-band simitar antenna.
Reminds me of the "shark fin" antennas on modern automobiles

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B-47 Bombers on the flight line.
I was stationed at Plattsburgh Air Force Base,
a Stragic Air Command (SAC) base located in Plattsburgh, N.Y.

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B47's were the world's first swept wing bomber and the first with
out-rigger landing gear, which was necessary because of the thin wings.
I was an ECM systems (Electronic CounterMeasures) Specialist
and remember working on this plane #2135

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B47s had only tail guns because at 600 mph
they were the fastest plane built. They could carry one nuclear weapon
or 10,000 pounds of conventional bombs.

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JATO (Jet Assisted TakeOff): When a B47 was fully loaded
with fuel pods (17,000 gal.) and bombs, a rack of small jets
was installed behind the aft wheel. The rack was jetisoned after take off

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Crew positions in the B-47.

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How it looked - Pilot.

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How it looked - Co-pilot.

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How it looked - Navigator/Bombadier

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A KC-97 refueling tanker

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A KC-97 refueling a B-47

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KC-97 Refueling Boom: The operator laid on the ironing board in the pod
and guided the boom into position by manuevering its tiny wings


 
American Electronic Labs
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American Electronic Labs, System's Technician
ALT-7 Transmitters were installed in tanks (APC's) and in aircraft

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American Electronic Labs, System's Technician
M113 Armored Personel Carrier (APC's) and in aircraft

 
Seifert X-ray
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Seifert X-Ray sales, service and nondestructive testing

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An X-Ray tube is inside of a tank of dielectric oil

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An X-Ray tube

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How x-ray tubes work

 
S&S Associates - Service in Electronics
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1970's stereo electronics

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Sony Trinitron color TV with "rabbit ears" antenna

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My STA-65, VCR, TV, turntable, cassette deck and DVR recorder

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Radio Shack Realistic STA-65 receiver and amplifier

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Stereo turntable with strobe speed control

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Teac dual cassette tape deck

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VHS VCR (Video Cassette Recorder)

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I alo had a portable reel-to-=reel tape recorder

 
JC Penney Product Service
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I turned this empty warehouse into a fabulous JCP Product Service Center

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In the 70's JCPenney sold appliances, electronics and gas engine products

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JCPenney had in-home service

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JCPenney wahser and dryer (avacado green)


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The first Product Service Center to have a computer

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1970's computer terminals looked like this.


 
American Appliances
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Am Appliance was a large Deaware Valley Retail appliance and home electronics
dealer providing in-home and carry-in service

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Programming
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I bought a Commodore 64 and began programming in DOS

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I programmed The Night Before Christmas in graphics on my Commodore.

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Santa "flew" across the sky at the end of my The Night Before Christmas.

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I worked from home for untold hours on this computer

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This is the first web site that I designed using HTML

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