Win up to $1,000. The Veterans of Foreign Wars administer a scholarship with three awards, for $1,000, $3,000, and $5,000. This contest is open to Eagle Scouts still in high school, as well as members of several other scouting organizations.
Sir Robert Watson-Watt in the year 1935 invented the first practical radar in the United Kingdom. A Handley Page Heyford bomber was detected by his radar from a distance of 12 km.ir Robert Watson-Watt in the year 1935 invented the first practical radar in the United Kingdom. A Handley Page Heyford bomber was detected by his radar from a distance of 12 km.
On 7 July 1947, around 75 miles north of the town of Roswell in New Mexico, debris from a highly classified project used by the US Army Air Force (the precursor to the US Air Force) to detect atomic bomb tests in the Soviet Union, was recovered from a ranch after being reported by ranch worker William Brazel.