Bernard Lovell
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Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell was an English physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980.
Lovell in 1973
Bernard Lovell
H2S (radar)
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H2S was the first airborne, ground scanning radar system. It was developed for the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command during World War II to identify targets on the ground for night and all-weather bomb
Bernard Lovell
…During the war he worked for the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) developing radar systems to be installed in aircraft, among them H2S. In June 1942, following the crash in England of a Halifax bomber on a flight to demonstrate the H2S, Lovell aided in the recovery of the H2S's highly…
A photograph of the H2S display taken during an attack on Cologne – the annotations were added later for post-attack analysis. The Rhine is visible snaking from top to lower right.
The H2S radome (top) and its enclosed scanning aerial (bottom) on a Halifax. The angled plate fixed to the top of the reflector modified the broadcast pattern to make nearby objects less bright on the display.
Halifax V9977 pictured at RAF Hurn while testing the prototype H2S. Its crash in June 1942 destroyed the prototype and killed chief designer Alan Blumlein.
This 1940 model magnetron, one of the first built, illustrates its strong construction that led to its capture by the Germans.