In June 1985 I was in Kanchanaburi, Thailand to see the Bridge over the River Kwai, infamous for its role in WWII. I arrived from Bangkok just as rain started dribbling; while exploring back streets for a place to stay, the skies opened and I was soon drenched. I probably looked sodden and silly, but…
Anomalies, Conductors and Half-Widths
In 1969 and 1970 I was a data man and occasional navigator of an airborne geophysics crew, working for Siegel Associates (Scintrex) in northern Canada. The aircraft were either Bell Jet Ranger 206B helicopters or a de Havilland Otter float/wheeled planes. The aircraft were equipped with several geophysics instruments, air photos camera and a radio…
Darkroom Data Man Hohns His Phrases
My first job with Siegel Associates (later, Scintrex) was as a data man on one of the firm’s helicopter geophysics crews. Everything I did as a dataman was new for me -I had not a clue as to geophysics was when I started the job, but was a hard working fellow and a good learner….
The Allure of ICBMs: Chasing Birds and Dancing with Skirts
In early March 1969, I was hired by Siegel Associates, a small Canadian geophysical exploration instrument manufacturer. The firm was soon to become Scintrex, one of the world’s leading geophysical exploration consultancies (in spite of my total ignorance of geophysics.) Dr. Harry Siegel and his Senior Geophysicist, Mike L~, had hired me because they liked…