Jewish Invention Myths: The Wind Shear Indicator/Alert System
One of the more unusual jewish invention myths is the claim that jews invented the wind shear indicator/alert system in so far as this is something that many people don’t think a lot or know a lot about considering it is a mix of aviation and meteorology. I certainly didn’t understand it before I looked into the matter to validate the jewish claim and once again the claim itself is based on poor research with a small kernel of fact to give it some kind of initial credibility.
The jewish claim is that Leonard Greene – a prolific jewish inventor within the aerospace industry – created the first wind shear indicator/alert system. (1) This is superficially plausible because Greene and his company ‘Safe Flight Instruments Corporation’ did invent a wind shear indicator/alert system in the late 1970s and this system was subsequently adopted by Boeing among others. (2)
The problem with this is that Greene invented this system in the late 1970s (3) but the original wind shear indicator/alert system called ‘Low-Level Wind Shear Alert System’ (LLWAS I) was developed in 1976 on the instructions of the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) in the wake of Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 incident at New York’s JFK airport on 24th June 1974 which was caused by a microburst and wind shear. (4)
The problem?
Greene had nothing to do with LLWAS I. Its creator – as best I can ascertain - was actually Wesley Wilson of the University of Colorado Boulder. (5)
So, no Leonard Greene didn’t invent the first wind shear indicator/alert system.
References
(1) https://christianislamicforum.wordpress.com/dedicated-to-our-jewish-brethren/
(2) https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/safe-flight-instrument-corporation
(3) Ibid.; Walter Frost, ‘Flight in Low-Level Windshear’, NASA Contractor Report 3678, March 1983, p. 67
(4) https://ral.ucar.edu/solutions/products/low-level-wind-shear-alert-system-llwas; https://archive.ll.mit.edu/mission/aviation/publications/publication-files/ms-papers/Meyer_1999_ARAM_MS-13136_WW-10133.pdf; https://aerospace.honeywell.com/us/en/about-us/news/2019/07/radar-corner
(5) https://www.linkedin.com/in/weswilsonllwas/