Hughes After Howard The Story of Hughes Aircraft Company eBook D Kenneth Richardson
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People everywhere have heard of the eccentric Howard Hughes, but few know
that in 1953 he virtually disappeared from the company he had begun in 1932.
Hughes Aircraft Company became the leading military electronics organization in the world. Some called it a national treasure.
In this book, the company’s past president Ken Richardson shows how this
was done. Richardson has compiled this remarkable piece of American aerospace history. Learn about the many complex products in all fields of electronics that were crafted by this highly motivated, inventive team at the forefront in every field of electronics technologies.
Hughes After Howard The Story of Hughes Aircraft Company eBook D Kenneth Richardson
Wow. I would give it 6 stars if I could. I worked as an engineer at Hughes starting in 1968 (Maverick missile). If there was one phrase I would use to describe Hughes, it would be "Technical Excellence". Hughes would typically do what just about no one else could do technically (TRW and Lockheed were in the same class). After working in Missile Systems Group (like Richardson, the President), I switched to Space and Comm Group. This doesn't get a huge section in this book, and I hope that the S&C engineers will get around to writing their story.Hughes was a great place to work. I was one of those 4,000 lucky engineers to get a Fellowship and earned my Masters in Aerospace Engineering. Thank you Hughes. I also remember that at Christmas, you could either get a turkey or a sliced ham. As a bachelor, I chose the sliced ham which gave me sandwiches for the month of January (most of us brought a brown lunch bag to work). At lunch, we would play chess. I could even play with my back to the board (not any more).
As thorough and comprehensive as Ken Richardson's book is, it is only part of the story. The most interesting parts can't be told because of classification. But let me mention some of the projects that I was aware of or worked on that were not restricted. While at MSG, I was able to go down to the Malibu research lab where the very first laser was made, and I saw the absolutely most amazing demonstration of a hologram. Wow. Later I worked on the Airborne Laser Lab. When I was at S&CG, I worked with the guys that designed and built Surveyor, the first man made object that landed on the moon. S&CG developed the first geosynchronous satellite followed by a whole stream of extremely reliable spinning satellites. What a great group of talented people to work with. Hughes truly was a National Treasure.
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Hughes After Howard The Story of Hughes Aircraft Company eBook D Kenneth Richardson Reviews
It has a lot of most interesting detail and tries hard to keep the general reader in touch with some difficult scientific concepts. Dr Richardson clearly has a great story to tell and reinforces his main points. But it would have been better with a less scholarly approach and more about the people involved from a personal viewpoint. Not the author's intention but it could be more lively
D. Kenneth Richardson's "Hughes After Howard" is a welcome addition to the many other books available about the brilliant, eccentric, reclusive Howard R. Hughes. It fills a gap in the literature, because, unlike most of the other books on the subject, there is very little in it about Mr. Hughes himself. By the time Mr. Richardson went to work at the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1952, Howard Hughes was not very involved in its day-to-day management. Within the next year, a Government ultimatum completely stripped from the volatile, unpredictable Mr. Hughes all responsibility for running the company that bore his name. At the same time, the company's focus shifted decisively toward the field of military electronics. As a subsidiary of HHMI (Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Hughes Aircraft Company soon became a global technological leader in radar, sonar, command & control systems, multi-spectral sensors, lasers, air-to-air missiles, homing guidance systems, communications satellites, stealth and many other military and commercial products.
"Hughes After Howard" is a very interesting blend of Mr. Richardson's personal experiences in the aerospace industry combined with short sections that provide global historical contexts for Hughes' technological accomplishments, along with detailed nuts-and-bolts descriptions of those accomplishments. It's filled with great technical information--how pulse-Doppler radar works, for example, and the theory and practice of spread-spectrum radio communications--that really appealed to my techno-geekiness. The depth of technical material may put off some readers who are not that into the intricacies of aerospace hardware and software. I think more photos and line drawings would improve readers' understanding of some of the more esoteric concepts, such as diagrams of the layout of slots in a planar phased-array antenna or the focal plane configuration of a Falcon's infrared seeker head.
Mr. Richardson tends to write in a "PowerPoint style." Many of his paragraphs of technical descriptions of the features of Hughes products seem to be "bulletized" lists lifted directly from presentation vu-graphs. Perhaps this is an artifact of the source material. Readers currently or formerly in the aerospace business will recognize the bulletized list style immediately--it's the mainstay of most meetings in the industry. That style is a bit dry and repetitive at times, but it packs in a lot of information pretty efficiently, if inelegantly.
All in all, I found "Hughes After Howard" a worthwhile read. Hughes Aircraft Company had a remarkable depth and breadth of technological expertise in military and commercial electronic systems, and Mr. Richardson's pride in the company's accomplishments is very apparent. In the book's final pages, the story of Hughes' long, painful decline and eventual demise after being taken over by General Motors is a sad chapter in the annals of aerospace history and a cautionary tale of "what might have been." If GM management had given Hughes free reign to exploit its innovative research, engineering and production capabilities rather than insisting on short-term profits, the world would today surely still be marveling at the latest electronic inventions from Howard Hughes' hallowed namesake company.
I worked for Hughes Aircraft co. back in the 70's to the 90's and was highly gratified at the history of this great company and also saddened about the events that lead to it's eventual downfall. I was a part of that as I was laid off from the Ground Systems Group in Fullerton just before it was abandoned to the wrecking ball and all programs and employees swallowed up by Raytheon (who I did eventually go back to work for 12 years later). Thank you Ken, for a great tale. It left me with fond memories of how the golden age of aerospace in California set it above the rest. That legacy will never be back I'm sorry to say. Today's aerospace companies are slaves to micro managing, slashed budgets, and a sad generation of mindless, illiterate college graduates who care about themselves and their pocketbooks more than the companies they work for.
Wow. I would give it 6 stars if I could. I worked as an engineer at Hughes starting in 1968 (Maverick missile). If there was one phrase I would use to describe Hughes, it would be "Technical Excellence". Hughes would typically do what just about no one else could do technically (TRW and Lockheed were in the same class). After working in Missile Systems Group (like Richardson, the President), I switched to Space and Comm Group. This doesn't get a huge section in this book, and I hope that the S&C engineers will get around to writing their story.
Hughes was a great place to work. I was one of those 4,000 lucky engineers to get a Fellowship and earned my Masters in Aerospace Engineering. Thank you Hughes. I also remember that at Christmas, you could either get a turkey or a sliced ham. As a bachelor, I chose the sliced ham which gave me sandwiches for the month of January (most of us brought a brown lunch bag to work). At lunch, we would play chess. I could even play with my back to the board (not any more).
As thorough and comprehensive as Ken Richardson's book is, it is only part of the story. The most interesting parts can't be told because of classification. But let me mention some of the projects that I was aware of or worked on that were not restricted. While at MSG, I was able to go down to the Malibu research lab where the very first laser was made, and I saw the absolutely most amazing demonstration of a hologram. Wow. Later I worked on the Airborne Laser Lab. When I was at S&CG, I worked with the guys that designed and built Surveyor, the first man made object that landed on the moon. S&CG developed the first geosynchronous satellite followed by a whole stream of extremely reliable spinning satellites. What a great group of talented people to work with. Hughes truly was a National Treasure.
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