KTLA TELECOPTER
Home ] Up ]

 

 

Hi Ed,

Bob Gilbreath was the first pilot for the telecopter as Larry Scheer was not hired for several months after the contract with KTLA started. He flew the G-2 for just a few months and then flew the 47-J model. He was hired since the station did not like Gilbreath's voice and Scheer had a good television voice.

After several years of operation, when the initial contract came up for renewel, Scheer went to the station and convinced them he could do a better job if they owned the helicopter and hired him directly so we lost the contract for a while.

If you want to contact my mom directly you can email her at janja414@aol.com or call her at 805.437.6866. I told her you name but reminder her you are doing the story about the telecopter.

She can tell you details that I don't know or don't remember.

Dick=

 

Richard -  The first pilot was Bob Gilbreath, our vice-president at the time.

 

 

 

First LIVE! Microwave Linked Helicopter News 
Reporting -  KTLA-TV Los Angles California

By Ed Sharpe Archivist  for SMECC


While the struggle to be “first live” was going on between KOOL and KTAR, the actual first had already taken place at KTLA in California many years earlier.

 

Lets start in 1946...  RCA had this conception  of Helicopter  news coverage utilizing radio waves to send video and sound back to the studio. This  advertisement appeared in  in  National Geographic and perhaps other publications. The concept of this  was in  reality not  really  'new' as  RCA  had  experience  with the BLOCK series of TV cameras  that  were used for remote vision on radio controlled  glider bombs.  The  

 

 

 

National Geographic - 1946

This was a conceptional  "helicopters will be able to report live news" ad.  The plane nose is a real photo but the helicopter and man watching it on TV are  artist renderings. Note the plane has a re-purposed WWII BLOCK system camera in the nose as used by gilded glider bombs from WWII. After the war a number of these cameras  were used in experimental situations.

 

========================   from the ad ==================================================

You'll see news in the making-
                         through Television

RCA airborne television will bring you thrilling news events that
 could not otherwise be "covered'' - while they are happening.

Imagine! A helicopter is "covering" the story of a man marooned on a burning building. Sitting at your home television receiver, you will get the same eye-witness view as though you were riding along in the nose of the plane!

To develop equipment compact enough to lit into a plane was a major problem. But RCA- NBC scientists and engineers in cooperation with the U. S. Navy did it-and airborne television became a wartime reality.

This portable equipment has many peacetime uses-and may lead to development of a "walkie-lookie" with which a radio or news reporter might cover a story by television as readily as a news photographer docs now with a camera.

Such progress-making research goes into each and every RCA product-and is your assurance that anything hearing the RCA or RCA Victor emblem is one of the finest instruments of its kind that science has achieved.

 

A television "eye" in the nose of a plane! Besides covering news events, by plane, automobile or boat, such equipment, developed by RCA and NBC, can make extremely accurate geographical surveys from planes flown by remote control. Moreover, similar television equipment can he used to observe hazardous manufacturing processes from a safe distance.

Radio Corporation of America, Radio City, New York 20 . . . Listen to The RCA Victor Show, Sundays, 4:30 P.M., Eastern Time, over the NBC Network.

 

RADIO CORPORATION of AMERICA

========================   from the ad ==================================================

 

 

 

 

 
Photo - National Helicopter Service

   Photo - National Helicopter Service you need to secure permission   from them to use this  

In the early or mid 1950's, CBS Engineers place a RCA-TK-30 Camera in a Bell Model Bell 47G2 Helicopter. The cable is probably 100 feet long and would run down to the  camera chain equipment in a remote truck. As long as the truck could reach a point and  cable up to the helicopter the camera cable length afforded  a high perspective for the television viewers.  What a view! But... not really 'MOBILE".

KTLA-TV's chief engineer, John Silva, created the idea of a “Telecopter,” or flying TV studio with a microwave link back to  Mt. Wilson and convinced the station to spend $40,000 on equipment that might not even work.  KTLA  hired Richard Hart of National Helicopter Service Company to  provide the Bell 47-G2 and the aviation engineering expertise  to provide a stable platform for the equipment.  Silva's challenge was to trim down the equipment to a manageable weight.  The  Bell G-2 was put on a trailer and  stashed behind Richard Hart's House. Surrounded  by trees, away from the prying eyes of the competition, they began assembling all the parts in strict secrecy.


Photo - National Helicopter Service

Down the street and into the yard! Surrounded  by trees, away from the prying eyes of the competition, they began assembling all the parts in strict secrecy.
Photo - National Helicopter Service you need to secure permission   from them to use this  

 

 


Photo - National Helicopter Service

The side racks carried a lot of the equipment. Dick Hart is in the checked shirt.
Photo - National Helicopter Service you need to secure permission   from them to use this  



On July 3, 1958, Silva and pilot  Bob Gilbreath, vice-president of National Helicopter, took the first flight to test the equipment. The engineers on the ground radioed that they were not getting any video. While Gilbreath hovered, Silva stepped out onto the skid, unlatched the box holding the microwave transmitter, and discovered that one of the vacuum tubes was not functioning.

That evening Silva improved the insulation and cushioning of the box to protect the tubes from excessive heat and vibration. On July 4th they went up again. When Silva aimed the hand-held camera toward Hollywood homes, this time the excited engineers on the ground reported seeing the images.

Years later John Silva told Air & Space magazine, “I never thought about being a pioneer, all I ever wanted to do was get us there and get the picture—before the competition got it.”

From that moment on, TV news was never the same.

"The Telecopter became the envy of every news department in the country and it was many years before anyone was able to match it," veteran KTLA reporter Stan Chambers recalled in his 2008 book "KTLA's News at Ten."



Even then, being first was everything.

==========================================================================

 

 

National Helicopter Service and Engineering Company

National Helicopter, in business since 1957, has achieved worldwide stature and a reputation as the "can do" helicopter service.

 

SMCC Statement of   Helicopter News  with emphasis on Arizona's  Sky 12

 

In the beginning... 

Journalists  longed   for a 'high eyepoint'  view of  things when reporting news stories. A plane or a helicopter  offered a lofty vantage point  of a breaking news story or traffic  condition.

 

 KTLA had been first to have a microwave  system equipped helicopter  in  1958. This 'KTLA TELECOPTER'  was provisioned and modified by  and  Richard Hart Sr. Of  National Helicopter Service and Engineering Company  John Silva at KTLA in Los Angles.

 

We were fortunate to be able to interview Richard Hart II President of National Helicopter Service and Engineering Company  on some of the  history. Richard ,  the some of the founder, grew up since childhood  in the  industry and witnessed  the 'secret' construction project  that took place in the  family's back year as the KTLA TELECOPTER came together....

 

Ed- ," how did the relationship between National Helicopter Service and KTLA start?

 

Richard -  We were really the only company at the time in Los Angeles that was doing photography in a specialized manner. We also had supplied helicopters, pilots and other equipment to several movies and television shows and were already becoming well known for that, as these industries are somewhat connected , we got together. As you have seen from other photos, we had also put studio cameras in the aircraft that were still connected to the ground by their cables and hovered over special events.

 

 Photo - National Helicopter Service you need to secure permission   from them to use this

 

In the early or mid 1950's, CBS Engineers place a RCA-TK-30 Camera in a Bell Model Bell 47G2 Helicopter. The cable is probably 100 feet long and would run down to the  camera chain equipment in a remote truck. As long as the truck could reach a point and  cable up to the helicopter the camera cable length afforded  a high perspective for the television viewers

 

 

 

 

Ed - Who owned the KTLA TELECOPTER when it was finished??

 

Richard -  National Helicopter owned the helicopter and KTLA owned the equipment, several years later KTLA purchased the entire system from us, mostly because by that point the pilot and camera operator wanted to be employees of KTLA and part of the union and convinced Gene Autry, who was really into aviation anyway, to buy the package from National. They, the pilot and cameraman, made the situation impossible for us to continue the relationship as they constantly complained to KTLA that they (again the pilot and cameraman) could manage the operation better than we could.

 

Ed-  - How long did it take to outfit the KTLA TELECOPTER?

Richard -  I was very young but I think it was just a matter of weeks.

 

 

Ed - Who were the first TELECOPTER pilot?

 

Richard -  The first pilot was Bob Gilbreath, our vice-president at the time.

 

 

Ed  - Were pilots employees of National Helicopter Service or KTLA?.

Richard -  At first they were our pilots.

 

 

Ed - Were pilots just pilots or were they also journalists?

 

Richard -  They were not journalists although they began to see themselves as somewhat elite. I don't really understand that because it did not take any special flying skills to operate the telecopter at that time, probably because they began to believe they were celebrities. I don't believe they are journalists now either, at least they don't report like a journalist.

 

 

Ed - did the early pilots run camera and fly at the same time or was there always a separate camera man?

 

Richard - There was always a camera operator, still is today most of the time.

 

 

 

Ed  - Looking back on News Helicopters for television, what events were key in raising the awareness of stations and made the 'News Helicopter' a 'MUST HAVE'?

 

Richard -  Up until the Baldwin Hills Dam and the Bel Air Fire, it was impossible to convince any other station in the country to invest in a telecopter, their comments generally were along the lines of "what do we need that for". If you recall at the time there were very few local news stations and the news was generally about 15 minutes in length. Televisions were actually few and far between compared to radio and radio was the main source of what we now call breaking news. However that changed once the public saw the dramatic pictures provided live over a disaster, once the reaction of the public was observed by other stations, that being the public instantly going to KTLA anytime a big story that could be seen from the air occurred, their doors opened and the telecopter starting being planned for in their budgets.

 

 

 

Ed- What other stations had you help them after the proven success of this KTLA TELECOPTER?

 

 

Richard -  We were involved in the telecopter developments of KNBC, KCBS locally as well as several, probably close to 10, stations around the country that I don't recall or have records for. Remember, to us this was just another job for the helicopters, it was not treated as anything particularly special. We still operate telecopters today and have continued since the beginning.

 

 
IF YOU USE  LOGO YOU NEED TO CLEAR WITH NATIONAL HELICOPTER

 

ongoing disaster such as the Baldwin Hills  Dam collapse in December 11, 1963.

 

Yes   40 years ago... This  event became THE  worldwide introduction of how useful helicopter news coverage  could be

Helicopter just put on trailer for trip to North Hollywood backyard of Dick Hart's house for somewhat secret project of creating the first "Telecopter".

That's Dick Hart standing closest to the truck.

Preparing to back up into driveway of Dick Hart's house on Farmdale Ave. in North Hollywood.

 

Continuing to back up into driveway. It's pretty cool to be the only kid on the block with a helicopter in your back yard.

 

Backing down the side of the house. This house still stands, although the original several acre yard was subdivided many years ago. The back yard had a large

2 story garage with lost of space for this project.

Tight fit, trees were a small problem.

Got it figured out with we kids' expert help.

 

 

Had to figure out how to put this much stuff into the aircraft. An amazing amount of ingenuity had to be used to make this work.

 

We used side racks to carry a lot of the equipment. Dick Hart is in the checked shirt. Be nice to still have at least one of the two cars in the background.

 

First test flight.

 

Fully operational.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This section in progress be sure to read the PDF article on John Silva below and watch  some of the  Stan Chambers interviews...

ENGINEERING ACTIVITY AT 
KTLA 
OVER THE YEARS

By John D. Silva

A Changing of the Guards

tech_notes_137.pdf archive of above page on smecc

 
 
other links

www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/Zoom-Shot.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6sEzEFJRHk

Stan Chambers - Archive Interview Part 1 of 10

bomb test with television cameras for the first time; the first Telecopter; the Watts Riots; and breaking the Rodney King story. For links to ...

by TVLEGENDS 3 years ago 711 views

Stan Chambers and Jessica Holmes Reporting on LA Traffic

Holmes today. ... Stan Chambers Jessica Holmes KTLA Morning News First Edition Traffic Telecopter Los Angeles CW affiliate yt:stretch=16:9 ...

 

Stan Chambers - Archive Interview Part 6 of 10

bomb test with television cameras for the first time; the first Telecopter; the Watts Riots; and breaking the Rodney King story. For links to ...

by TVLEGENDS 3 years ago 108 views

Flames Threaten Homes in Trabuco Canyon, CA - Oct. 24

Jessica Holmes reports from the KTLA HD Telecopter on flames threatening homes at the base of a mountain in Trabuco Canyon, Calif., on Oct. 24, 2007. ...

by KTLA 4 years ago 2,556 views

Francis Gary Powers: The U-2 Spy Plane Incident Part 11

was then hired by television station KNBC to pilot their new "telecopter," a helicopter equipped with externally mounted 360 degree cameras. ...

by XOtericate 1 year ago 2,768 views

Stan Chambers - Archive Interview Part 10 of 10

-bomb test with television cameras for the first time; the first Telecopter; the Watts Riots; and breaking the Rodney King story. B-roll. For links ...

by TVLEGENDS 3 years ago 119 views

 

 

Planet LA - KTLA History

A look back at KTLA's contribution to Los Angeles, and its many innovations in TV news.

by KTLA 4 years ago 2,913 views

 

http://www.tech-notes.tv/Archive/tech_notes_137.pdf

Results for "Larry Scheer" between 1906 - 2012

Filter by: Daily | Weekly
Sort by: Date | Relevance
Result found: 14
<<12>>
Weekly Variety - March 15th, 1972 - Page 51
Keywords:
STATION •| hfMr- i - 30% WE ARE INDEED HONORED f-^ K THE INCREDIBLE TELEMAOfflNES LARRY SCHEER & HAROLD MORBY BEAUTIFUL AND NOW STEVE ALLEN'S "MEETING OF THE MINDS" . ';: : :*;• ^ : STIi^ E ALLEN ; I ; _• : ] [ 0'':: :-[ ' "Writer aiuJ Cretvi.-or • ! '' M. CPtiwg of like Miaae [>| r-'•; N TOE CIRCUS If 11^ TOWN •••".'.: :: c ; C
Published Date: March 15th, 1972
Daily Variety - July 18th, 1974 - Page 5
Keywords:
remains. If nothing else, "Temperatures Rising" reunited Ghostley and Lynde. Maybe that was its purpose all along That, and chance to hear Shorty Rogers' zippy scoring Tone KNBC Buys KTLA * Telecopier, Adds Scheer KNBC has purchased the KTLA telecopier and added pilot reporter Larry Scheer to the staff, per
Published Date: July 18th, 1974
Daily Variety - October 1st, 1981 - Page 15
Keywords:
cassettes and tapes. Producer of the project is Jack Nakano, exec producers are Larry Scheer and Leonard Frankcouer. Performers and other creative personnel are C aid minimal salaries upfront ut receive profit points at the back ends. Century has been active in re cent years in the taping of chil-drens' tv programs. Postpro
Published Date: October 1st, 1981
Daily Variety - March 6th, 1963 - Page 9
Keywords:
. With our experienced staff and mobile fa cilities, both on land and in the air, we will cover any newsworthy event within a half-hour after it happens." Meanwhile, Donald Sides has joined KTLA as station's tele-copter newscaster-pilot, replacing Larry Scheer, who exited to as sume ownership of Napa radio station KVON along
Published Date: March 6th, 1963
Daily Variety - February 17th, 1972 - Page 8
Keywords:
(KNBC), Larry Scheer and Harold Morby (KTLA), Ray Duncan (KNBC), earthquake coverage (KNBC), Jack Taylor, producer-camera-man, and Ruth Aahton-Taylor, re- porter on "On the Ocean" (KNXT). Community affaire seriea: Ralph Btory'a ajn. program (KABC), Ralph Story-boat (KABC), Mi chael Jackaon- boat (KCOP), Med- 1
Published Date: February 17th, 1972
Daily Variety - April 30th, 1971 - Page 15
Keywords:
they had some beauti ful scenic shots of L.A. and its skyline. Pilot-reporter Larry Scheer and engineer - lenser Harold Morby were interviewed briefly, told of some of their experiences. Somehow, the standout shots of .all those shown were those of the looters making off with all kinds of merchandise, including furni ture, during
Published Date: April 30th, 1971
Daily Variety - September 3rd, 1970 - Page 11
Keywords:
along with Tom Reddin, Hal Fish-man, Larry Scheer and a sports-caster on both 5 and 10 p.m. edi-tions of Channel 5 news telecasts. Tom Harmon and former N.Y. Yankee Jerry Coleman will alter nate in sportscaster slots. Sanders, 34, began news career in 195G on a Perth radio station, Joined ATN in Sydney in 1959. For nearly two
Published Date: September 3rd, 1970
Daily Variety - December 9th, 1982 - Page 8
Keywords:
events that have been part of KTLA's news programming in 35 years all show how intrepid such newsmen as pilot Larry Scheer, Clete Roberts, Bill Stout, Joseph Benti were in the days when tv reporters were just that - reporters. Gerald L. Ruben was super vising producer for hour that shows how much early tv, not blessed
Published Date: December 9th, 1982
Daily Variety - December 10th, 1973 - Page 10
Keywords:
; is an original idea which comes off. Pilot Larry Scheer and cameraman-engineer Harold Morby capture postcard- quality impressions with the video tape camera free of wiggle thanks CROSSWORD PUZZLE By EDWA ACROSS I.Musicalization of "Raisin 25. Frequent 53. Dope fuzz In The Sun" 28. Post pubescents 56. Stopper 7. Fit 30
Published Date: December 10th, 1973
Daily Variety - April 5th, 1973 - Page 14
Keywords:
;Stairwell Minstrel," KABC. Bob Abemethy, "Bob Abemethy Interviews" (5 p.m. KNBC Newservlce), KNBC. Ray Duncan, "Ray Duncan Reports" (5 p.m. KNBC Newservice), KNBC. Robert Cunningham, Ray Lopez: "San Pedro Chemical Fire," KNXT. Bob Simmons: "Bad Day In Darwin," KNXT. Harold Morby, Larry
Published Date: April 5th, 1973
Filter by: Daily | Weekly
Sort by: Date | Relevance
Result found: 14

 

Results for "Larry Scheer" between 1906 - 2012

Filter by: Daily | Weekly
Sort by: Date | Relevance
Result found: 14
<<12>>
Weekly Variety - December 1st, 1976 - Page 54
Keywords:
as weather reporter. He replaces Larry Scheer, who asked to be relieved after 16 years. LONDON Laurence Olivier chose Stanley Houghton's "Hindle Wakes" (c. 1912) to open Granada Television's "Best Play Of The Year" series Dec. 19 ... "I Claudius," Jack Pulman's much acclaimed drama from the Robert Graves novel, finishes on BBC-2
Published Date: December 1st, 1976
Weekly Variety - July 24th, 1974 - Page 42
Keywords:
, joins NBC as west coast manager of compliance and practices.... KNBC, the NBC-TV o& o, has bought KTLA's "Telecopter" and added pilot-reporter Larry Scheer to its staff... Dyan Cannon signed for the title role in NBCTV's "The Virginia Hill Story" made-for-tv movie for the 1974-75 season, her first dramatic role on tv... Ernest
Published Date: July 24th, 1974
Weekly Variety - October 7th, 1981 - Page 166
Keywords:
outlets, to the educational market and to foreign tv ( nibbles have come in from France, Germany, Spain and Italy). In 1983, Century Video plans to merchandise the series on videocassettes and discs. Producer of the project is Jack Nakano, exec producers are Larry Scheer and Leonard Frankcouer. Performers and other creative
Published Date: October 7th, 1981
Weekly Variety - August 18th, 1965 - Page 1
Keywords:
three networks either by live transmission from the telecopter or taped. Hugh Brundage. n e w s director for Golden West Broadcasters, owners of KTLA, supervised the coverage aided by Hal Fishman and Stan Chambers, Larry Scheer piloted the telecooter and announced the action while Hal Morby was cameraman and engineer. Live
Published Date: August 18th, 1965
Filter by: Daily | Weekly
Sort by: Date | Relevance
Result found: 14
<<12>>

 

May 15 1967

This devastating fire destroyed the Little Europe area (including the Court of Miracles). Part of Spartacus Square was spared, only to be destroyed 20 years later.

"Wind-whipped flames chew their way through movie and TV sets on Universal Studios' back lot, causing an estimated $1 million damage. A studio spokesman reported the fire, which sent flames 200 to 300 feet into the air, started near the "The Virginian" set then spread to the "Run For Your Life" filming area."

The 12-acre blaze consumed the "European," Denver" and "Laramie" street sets

 

 

John D. Silva dies at 92; introduced news helicopter

John D. Silva created the Telecopter, essentially a flying television studio, for KTLA-TV Channel 5 in L.A.

December 07, 2012|By Bob Pool, Los Angeles Times
  •  
    • Email
      Share
    •  
  • KTLA engineer John D. Silva is pictured in 1958 with actor Gregory Peck sitting in the KTLA Telecopter, which was to be used to cover the opening of Peck's motion picture "The Big Country."
KTLA engineer John D. Silva is pictured in 1958 with actor Gregory Peck sitting… (Eddie Hoff Photography )

John D. Silva was the chief engineer for KTLA-TV in 1958 when he outfitted a helicopter with a TV camera and changed television news coverage forever.

He turned a rented Bell helicopter into the Telecopter, essentially a flying TV studio. The first of its kind, it put Channel 5 news at the forefront of live aerial coverage of major events like parades, fires, earthquakes and massive freeway snarls.

Hundreds of televised car chases later, Silva's invention is a staple of local television news stations, along with the mobile unit he also had a hand in developing.

Silva, whose two Emmy Awards include one in 1974 for developing the Telecopter, died Nov. 27 in Camarillo of complications of pneumonia, his family said. He was 92.

"John's legacy is of leading the industry to develop new tools. He actually helped define live television in the infancy of this industry," said Dave Cox, KTLA's current chief engineer.

Silva began creating the aerial broadcast studio in strict secrecy, assembling the news chopper in a North Hollywood backyard so other local TV stations wouldn't catch on.

The challenges were great. First, the engineer had to convince KTLA executives to spend $40,000 on broadcast equipment that no one was certain actually worked — no small feat in 1957. Then he had to whittle down 2,000 pounds of television equipment to just 368 pounds so the Bell 47 helicopter could lift off the ground.

On the piston-driven helicopter's maiden flight July 3, 1958, Silva struggled mightily.

During that test flight, his fellow engineers waiting on Mt. Wilson radioed that they were not receiving any video images from the helicopter. Silva knew he would not be able to duplicate the in-flight conditions by trouble-shooting back on the ground. So he asked pilot Larry Scheer to hover at about 1,500 feet as smoothly as he could.

"Larry, I've got to go out there," he told the pilot, adding "I am not going to look down."

Silva then climbed out on the right side skid, clinging with one hand to the copter and using his other hand to unlatch the wooden box containing the microwave transmitter bolted to the outside of the chopper.

When he peered into the box, he could see that one of the transmitter's vacuum tubes was not glowing. The helicopter's vibration and the day's scorching heat had caused it to fail.

Back at the airport, Silva worked overnight to insulate the box and cushion its contents from the Bell 47's bone-jarring shake.

The next day, July 4, 1958, Silva and Scheer lifted off again. At 12:48 p.m., Silva aimed his hand-held camera toward Hollywood bungalows. Elated Mt. Wilson engineers radioed back, "We've got you!"

From that moment on, TV news was never the same.

"The Telecopter became the envy of every news department in the country and it was many years before anyone was able to match it," veteran KTLA reporter Stan Chambers recalled in his 2008 book "KTLA's News at Ten."

Silva was the kind of guy who "didn't worry about what couldn't be done," Chambers observed in the book. "He concentrated on making the impossible happen."

The intrepid engineer was born in San Diego on Feb. 20, 1920, to parents involved in the tuna fishing industry. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in engineering. In 1942 he joined the Navy as a radar operator and was aboard the destroyer Shea when Japanese bombers attacked, killing 35 sailors. Silva was among 91 who were wounded.

After his wartime service, he moved to Los Angeles and joined Paramount Pictures, which was operating an experimental TV station, W6XYZ, the predecessor of KTLA. After KTLA signed on as the first commercial station in the West in 1946, Silva became the technical director of such programs as "City at Night" and "The Lawrence Welk Show" and handled remote broadcasts of local events that included the Rose Parade, roller derby contests and baseball games.

Another major contribution of Silva's was the Telemobile, a station wagon with a large camera and photographer's seat mounted on the roof. It also had a microwave dish that was powered by a generator that was towed behind in a trailer. Introduced in the early 1960s, the mobile unit was the forerunner of those used by TV news stations today.

While driving on the Hollywood Freeway, Silva came up with his best-known invention.

The idea "came to me all of a sudden," he said in a 2002 interview for the Archive of American Television. "'How can we beat the competition? Why, of course. If we could build a news mobile unit in a helicopter we could get over it all, get there first, avoid the traffic, and get to all the stories before anybody.... It'd be a wonderful thing.'"

Silva was the station's chief engineer for 21 years. He was director of engineering research from 1976 until 1978, when he retired to become an electronics design consultant. He won his first Emmy in 1970 for his electronic news-gathering.

 

 

 

 

Everyday we rescue items you see on these pages!
What do you have hiding in a closet or garage?
What could you add to the museum displays or the library?

PLEASE CONTACT US!

===================

DONATE! Click the Button Below!


Thank you very much!

===================

Material © SMECC 2007 or by other owners 

Contact Information for
Southwest Museum of Engineering,
Communications and Computation 
&
www.smecc.org

Talk to us!
Let us know what needs preserving!


Telephone 
623-435-1522 

Postal address 
smecc.org - Admin. 
Coury House / SMECC 
5802 W. Palmaire Ave 
Glendale, AZ 85301 

Electronic mail 
General Information: info@smecc.org