 Bob
Dippy started work on radar development at Bawdsey
Manor in July 1936. His proposals for a radio
navigational system were not immediately used, but were
developed urgently in 1942 to improve our bombing
accuracy. It was particularly successful as a
general navigation system that brought returning bombers
back to their aerodromes - saving many aircraft and the
lives of the crews.
Later, the concepts were
further developed as GEE-H and in the USA, with Dippy as
advisor, to become Loran-A. All these systems were
used on D-Day to provide good navigation for the massive
invasion fleets and airborne forces, and in the spoof
invasion that fooled the enemy about the location of our
attack
After the war he went to New Zealand to work on
electronics research and then to Australia where he became
a divisional head of research at the Weapons Research
Establishment near Adelaide.
Bill Penley 2007 & 2011 |
