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    Wall of Honor Level:
    Air and Space Friend

    Honored by:

    John F. Maitland, Aviation and Space Advocate
    Martin Marietta – Baltimore, Maryland
    1952-1960
    Design and Group Engineer and Assistant Engineer -- Matador Guided Missile, Missile Master System, Titan I Missile Group Support. Consultant with Martin Marietta Denver for the Titan Missile Project Spy in the Sky Project – unmanned satellite
    1960-1961
    Design and Group Engineer – 726 Program, Titan I Missile Ground Equipment and Simulator, Titan II Missile, NATO Data Command and Control (422A)
    1962-1964
    Design and Group Engineer – Display and Control System Definition Design, System Engineer Mobile Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM)
    Resigned from Martin Marietta 1964
    American Machine and Foundry – AMF – York, PA
    1964-1965
    Project Engineer – Apollo “S” Band Antenna and Telemetry Antenna, NSMEC Jacking and Locking System – offshore drilling platform, Apollo Missile Crane, Design engineers on system development and hardware design self-elevating offshore drill platforms
    Contract Approval Office Representative for Canaveral Corps of Engineers
    Resigned May 1965 from AMF
    Westinghouse Electric – Annapolis and Friendship Airport (BWI)
    1965-1966
    Senior Design Engineer – Developed submergence program, Display and control, data processing, Project 0236 & 0255, Vehicle cable design with U.S. Steel Engineers, WDSP-integration, design and in house testing program
    1966-1972
    Senior Engineer and Acting Supervisor – Installation of WDSP#1 platform at Pearl Harbor, Vehicle and display control equipment at sea testing, sell off to Navy, Project “U” and WDSP proposals
    1972-1988
    Supervisor Engineer – Established new concept for Quality Control, Electrical Performance Evaluation and sell off to customer, Developed Quality Control Regulations, Taught Foreign Air Force Personnel in Argentina, Morocco, AWACS
    1988-1993
    Q&RA Manager, Radar antennas at Baltimore Washington Airport TPS-43’s, Off-Shore Facilities in Puerto Rico, Barbados and Mexico
    1993 Retired

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