Lt. Jeppson, pictured before his first and only combat mission.
Posted on 04/07/2010 4:56:35 PM PDT by traumer
remember when gay wasn’t code for “pervert”?
You did good, sir.
What a strange time coincidence with Obama’s de-nuclearization of the USA....
May he rest in peace ...
He probably saved millions of lives by ending WW-II early.
Mr. Jeppson received a bachelor’s degree in physics at the University of California at Berkeley. He went on to work for the university’s radiation laboratory and at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before founding his own company, which built linear accelerators for research and medical applications.
In 1962, he started a second company, which produced industrial microwave ovens. He retired after selling that company in 1970....
What a FULL PRODUCTIVE life !
RIP.
The B-29 was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Paul Tibbets.
yeah, well, nowadays it would mean something entirely different.
Heroes all, from the dreamers, engineers, scientists developers armorers, pilots and crew, maintainers, everyone associated with the miracle of nuclear weapons and their delivery, during the world war.
Now an idiot without a scintilla of thought or recognition of the miracle of the Manhattan Project and the MILLIONS of lives saved by the use of the weapons indicates his willingness to chuck the whole thing and turn his nation into what?
I got to meet Col. Tibbets at an air show, They saved millions of American and Japanese lives.
A true hero.
Mr. Jepperson most probably died of a Broken Heart with the latest Outrageous news that OBOZO was cutting Our Nuclear Arsenal and telling All of Our Enemies that America will NOT use the Bombs on them, no matter what! Mr. Jepperson was a True American Hero and Patriot! as opposed to the Imposter living in the White House! A Sad day for Ameria!
You did your duty - and likely saved my father-in-law’s life. May choirs of angels sing you home!
Correction!:
Mr. Jeppson is the correct spelling! Apologies!
Thank you patriot, and may you rest in peace.
It has been a long time since I flew as a private pilot, but I vaguely remember a piece of equipment we used in calculating some aspect of our flight planning that bore the name Jeppson or something awfully close. FWIW.
You’re thinking of Jeppesen. He was an airline pilot who began drawing up hand sketches of approaches to airports, showing obstructions, etc and selling them to airline pilots. Later he expanded the service to much wider coverage of airports and airways and offering subscriptions to the general aviation public. I think his company did also sell a version of the “E6B computer”, a slide rule like calculator for working out headings, ground speed, etc. The Jeppesen charts could be carried in a specially made briefcase usually known as a “Jepp case” which was usually the mark of a pilot on the way to work.
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