American Solar Wind Energy
Adjunct Instructor
Air Force Navigators Association
Ret USAF Navigator-Bombardier
Field Testing Engineering Work
Family
Key West
Working on "Laney Chouest"
Last Aviation Cadet
Evaluating the "Scat"
T-29D Radar Navigation Trainer
T-29 History Hill Aerospace Museum
Contact
Ron
305-797-0745
About The Author . . .
Family
Ron's book
Globe Master Gods
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Barrett's latest Field Engineering R&D
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As Chief Research Engineer of American Solar Wind Energy LLC (ASWE) TM Ron Barrett tests the SolarPhotoVoltaics, aerodynamics, structures, and electrical generation systems of the Advanced Compound Solar Savonius (ACSS TM ) models being prepared for manufacturing.
The ACSS's TM range from the current five-feet tall, upward. Similitude mathematics of scale and low Reynolds number turbulent vortical flow data are employed through out the testing. The largest ACSS TM is to be 32 feet. All are of the vertical axis wind turbine type with integrated SolarPV, designed for residential and farm use. Electrical power out put is to be both DC & AC. |
As a Field Engineer Barrett travels world wide conducting RD&T. Here Ron is at Edwards AFB/NASA Dryden Flight Test Center conducting historical flight data and airfoil research.
Additionally Barrett as Historian and President of the Air Force Navigators Observers Association (AFNOA). Ron collects information for the AF Navigators’ Comprehensive History (AFNCH) which he created, edited and provided to the USAF/HO and AFNOA members. The AFNCH is a comprehensive compilation of more than 11,000 pdf pages of Navigator training, flight, and historical manuals, and related documents dating from 1903 to present.
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April 10, 2004 Barrett photographs a T-29D
Radar Navigation Trainer on Mercer Air Field, Georgia.
T-29 History |
Ron Barrett evaluating
the application of a hydrofoil ATC-Glass performance coating on the
world's speed record holder for trimaran hydrofoils, Dr. Sam Brandfield's "Scat" in Key West, Florida. |
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Ron Barrett working
high up on the newest, largest anchor and supply ship "Laney
Chouest" in Galliano, Louisiana. |
Retired Officer, and "The
Last Aviation Cadet in the USAF" Ron Barrett with a "quad
pack" of B-28 Nuclear Bombs used for crew training. Barrett
flew nuclear weapons support for over 3,000 hours, transporting
these type of weapons to USAF units all over the world. |

Barrett is interested in hearing from any of his crewmates from
the 7th Logistic Support Squadron "Special" The 7th LSS was a Logistics
Support Squadron, based at Robins AFB, Ga and commanded out of Wright-Patterson
AFB, Ohio.
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Ron Barrett |
Barrett the author of Globe Master Gods, (© Ron Barrett)
wrote the original manuscript in 1979. Over the years he wrote and
published other works. Now it has come time to publish Globe Master
Gods because it is an end of the millennium story.
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Saudi Arabia |
The Globe Master Gods could only be written by someone like
Barrett, a flyer, who has traveled and worked in more than 40 lands,
around the globe, Korea to Iceland, and lived on the economy for
years in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is a former USAF Cadet,
Navigator/Bombardier, international pilot instructor and multimedia
communications lecturer. Today he creates interactive multimedia
works for the WWW and CD/DVDS applications.
Ron is also a member of the Valiant Air Command Museum in Titusville,
Florida http://www.vacwarbirds.org/ |
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"Howdy boys, I'm helping Ron with applying
bottom protective coating - so roll it over and let's get with the
program."
Days in Key West
"Your BOAT fellow, your boat, roll your
boat over!"
Barb sunnin on the beach. |
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Jack and Ron enjoying an evening sunset on the canal in back of the house, at-on Summerland Key Airport, US mile marker 27. Jack is a great working companion of mine. He has lived in the lower Keys for decades. |
Jack's front yard, with a C-172 on take off roll. Yep the front yard is the runway!
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Summerland Key, 24N latitude work area. Here I test new materials in tropical conditions. |
Fun time in Key West is going to breakfast at the
docks. Lots of locals come in their dinghies and
spend the morning catching up on fishing and marine issues.
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