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Roland A. Boucher
BS, MS
Experience
60 years professional experience
BS Electrical Engineering University of CT. 1954,
MS Yale University 1955
California Professional, Engineer #6094,
Granted Patent # 3957230 May 18, 1976 for “Remotely Controlled Electric Airplane” which led to his Induction into Model Aviation Hall of Fame
After graduation from Yale, Mr. Boucher joined the Hughes Aircraft Company in California where he was engaged in the design of satellites for communication, navigation and weather observation.
Mr Boucher developed an improved satellite camera to display real time weather photographs of the whole earth in 2000 line resolution from a spinning stationary satellite.
He demonstrated the feasibility of communicating directly from a satellite to aircraft using a modified aircraft radio and managed the development of the spacecraft communications equipment for the NASA Advanced Technology Satellites. Mr Boucher was a member of the 1969 United States delegation to the first CCIR conference in Geneva to select frequency authorization for satellite communication.
In 1973, he left the employment of Hughes Aircraft Company to form a company devoted to the development for DARPA of a high altitude solar-powered electric aircraft and for an electric powered battlefield drone capable of carrying a 20 percent payload for one hour at an airspeed of 60 mph
In 1976 He returned to Hughes to manage a company funded effort to reduce the size, weight, and cost of a major classified electronics product by 80 percent. He achieved a reduction of 75 percent in two years and actually got the thing to work.
In 1975 Mr Boucher started a toy manufacturing company to develop a small radio controlled electric powered model car. The model car became an instant success with kids across the nation. His wife Nancy ran the company in his absence when Hughes asked him to return.
In Retirement Mr. Boucher began the study of Ancient Metrology. This led to the breakthrough discovery that the Metric system the French proposed in 1723 had been invented 5000 years earlier in Ancient Sumeria. This method of using a pendulum timed from celestial observations apparently spread to the many parts of the then known world.