THE ROLE OF THE HUNGARIAN ENGINEERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RADAR SYSTEMS

Abstract

There is a radar unit at Ferihegy Airport for more than four decades. This period brought a lot of work, success and a real sense of achievement together with difficulties and problems for the operational staff. Their leaders - as technical experts participated in the installation of P-10 radar in 1958, and retired after four decades´ heavy work at the turn of the millennium. During this period they had received different engineering degrees at the Technical University of Budapest, improved their knowledge by participating at different field trips, attending foreign schools and postgraduate studies. The engineering staff had attended postgraduate studies as well, most of them graduated at the Technical High School of Transportation and Telecommunication in Gyõr. The Ferihegy Airport itself was not an official, accredited field study, but reminding the main deeds of the last half-century, we can certainly regard it like that. A real researcher, developer and elaborator workshop was running here, where the Hungarian Engineers proved their enormous creativity. Their work actively contributed to the improvement of safety and efficiency of the air traffic flying over Hungary, to development and international admittance of the Hungarian flight and air traffic control. We can be sure of the fact, had they got the opportunity, they would have constructed better radar systems, then the ones they had received from the foreign suppliers.