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<\/p>\n<\/p>So we had an idea and some broad requirements, we did\u00a0\u00a0 a proof of concept showing that the resulting video would be pretty impressive,\u00a0\u00a0 and now we had to start making the idea a real-world device. That required\u00a0\u00a0 someone with design and engineering skills that could also factor in\u00a0\u00a0 manufacturing know-how to make the device affordable. Let me introduce Richard\u00a0\u00a0 Hardy and his work.\n
Here\u2019s an excerpt from Richard\u2019s bio:<\/p>\n
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Richard Hardy retired from Boeing\u00a0\u00a0 in March of 1996 after a 37 year career. He joined Boeing in Seattle after\u00a0\u00a0 graduating from MIT with bachelor degrees in mechanical and aeronautical\u00a0\u00a0 engineering and a master\u2019s degree in aeronautical engineering.<\/p>\n
After\u00a0\u00a0 three years as a flight mechanics engineer Mr. Hardy was promoted to management\u00a0\u00a0 on the Saturn 5 moon launch vehicle program in Huntsville, Alabama. He\u00a0\u00a0 eventually became chief of the technical staff on launch vehicles and the lunar\u00a0\u00a0 rover program.<\/p>\n
Returning to Seattle in 1970, he\u00a0\u00a0 worked on the Short Range Attack Missile and was the Vehicle Design Manager on\u00a0\u00a0 the SCAD program, which became the Air Launched Cruise Missile. He spent a year\u00a0\u00a0 in Dayton under an industry\/government exchange program where he worked in the\u00a0\u00a0 B-1 bomber System Program Office.<\/p>\n
Returning to Seattle, Mr. Hardy\u00a0\u00a0 became program manager of the AFTI F-111 Mission Adaptive Wing program. After\u00a0\u00a0 successful completion of flight-testing on that program, he became Chief of New\u00a0\u00a0 Combat Aircraft programs.<\/p>\n
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In 1980 he established fighters\u00a0\u00a0 as a product line objective and became program manager of the Boeing Advanced\u00a0\u00a0 Tactical Fighter program, which eventually became the F-22.<\/p>\n
Mr.\u00a0\u00a0 Hardy helped put together the Lockheed\/Boeing\/General Dynamics F-22 team. After\u00a0\u00a0 the team was successful in flying the YF-22 and winning the competition, he was\u00a0\u00a0 promoted to Vice President General Manager Military Airplanes.<\/p>\n
As you can see, in his career Richard pretty much\u00a0\u00a0 covered all the most challenging and advanced space and military aviation\u00a0\u00a0 projects over almost 4 decades. After Boeing, Richard founded Hardy Engineering\u00a0\u00a0 and Manufacturing in the Seattle area.<\/p>\n
At this point I should fess up that Richard is a\u00a0\u00a0 cousin, was pretty much my role model through my school years, and I set the\u00a0\u00a0 goal to attend MIT because he had.<\/p>\n
We had stopped to visit his family in Seattle on our\u00a0\u00a0 flight north to Alaska, and we got together in Boston after the flight and I\u00a0\u00a0 showed some freehand sketches of what a pod device could look like. Richard\u00a0\u00a0 liked the project and immediately engaged, doing an initial design and\u00a0\u00a0 prototype, a gorgeous milled aluminum aerodynamic structure.<\/p>\n
The design has gone through a lot of iterations since\u00a0\u00a0 then, as we went about a program of continuous improvement before getting to the\u00a0\u00a0 Eagle360.<\/p>\n
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