About the author

Richard Martin joined the Air Ministry Research Establishment (AMRE) in October 1939. Throughout its moves to Swanage (TRE) and Malvern (RRE), he worked on several ground radar projects including radar displays, glider-borne radar ground stations, and he initiated work on digital radar extraction and processing, demonstrated to the Air Ministry in 1951. He was directly involved in the planning of both Ahead and Linesman/Mediator. He left RRE in 1964, as a Principal Scientific Officer, to take up an appointment in the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) in Brussels, from where he retired in 1977.