Michael Peck
By modern standards, the first flying radar station was not impressive. The APY-9, mounted on the latest E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, can reportedly detect aircraft 350 miles away. Yet today's radar planes are the direct descendants of Project Cadillac.
What is that strange-looking aircraft, that looks like an airliner with a giant mushroom perched on top? From that giant mushroom perched high up in the sky, perhaps over Iraq or Syria or the South China Sea, invisible beams of radiation stream in all directions.
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-shocking-story-how-the-us-navy-invented-the-flying-radar-22933
