I am assisting my Grandfather Doug Stinnett with his profile. He is currently retired for the 3rd time, and living in Roswell, New Mexio with his wife Verlaine. My grandfather is a hero to many people, and has touched the lives of many. After Raising 4 children of his own, he took in 3 of his grandchildren, one of them being me. My father was sent to prison when I was 4y/o. My grandfather got off work the night my father was hauled away after working from 4:00a.m. until 6:00 p.m. and drove from Roswell, NM to Kansas City, Kansas. He only stopped for a 45 minute nap, food, and restroom breaks in fear of me being taken into State Custody. He also took in my twin cousins while his daughter was dying of cancer. Doug is now 73 years old. He is in pretty good health. He went to Missouri this last November to do some Deer hunting with my father. After retirung from the Air Force he drove Semi-Trucks hauling Oil for quite a few years. After that He began pumping gas at the air station in Roswell, N.M. It didn't take long before he was the Vice President of Great Southwest Aviation. ( If any one who views this profile knows him, please leave us a message. I will pass it on to him. He would love to hear from some of the guys who are still around. I am a Marine Corps Veteran and a member of Marine Together we served.)
Thanks for Viewing,
Steve Stinnett
1949-1971, C-130PC Quiet Knight
From Year 1949
To Year 1971
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C-130PC Quiet Knight Details
Aircraft/Missile Information
he Quiet Knight program uses maturing technology to demonstrate and validate affordability, applicability to all types of SOF platforms, and retrofit/forward fit of complete or partial solutions for a SOF infiltration/exfiltration mission scenario. Specific deficiencies addressed for the infil/exfil type mission scenario include passive detection, situation awareness of active threats, and crew workload. This effort will bring detection avoidance technology closer to the operational user, and allow end users to "fly before you buy." System integration issues to be investigated include sensor/resource management, fault tolerance/configuration, database management and high-speed data distribution, retrofit with existing avionics platform architectures, and extensibility to future high performance architectures.
The recent C-130PC Quiet Knight demonstrations advanced the state of the art in passive ranging by exploiting emitter phenomena. Using data from recent flight tests on the Quiet Knight program, Litton Amecom demonstrated techniques for air-to-ground ranging using Doppler measurements on the emitter. The Quiet Knight program was sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory Advanced Architecture & Integration Branch [IFSC] at Wright Patterson AFB, which develops and demonstrates advanced embedded system architectures and system integration concepts for legacy and future platforms. The Branch conducts research and development programs ranging from constructive to real-time/hardware-in-the-loop simulation technology to support effectiveness evaluations and demonstrations of the evolving technologies. The Quiet Knight Display Processor provided by PortalSoft Technologies of Albuquerque NM included a Digital Map Display (with HSD, flight plan, route/threat data overlay), Ridgeline display, and a Terrain following/Terrain avoidance display.
