Robert E Bradley

Robert Bradley enlisted in the USAAF immediately after World War II and served in the Communication Service. After leaving the Air Force he went on to attend the University of Southern California where he graduated in 1953 with a B.Sc. in Physics. After graduation he went to work for North American Aviation in El Segundo in the Systems and Tactics Group. He was there for four years prior to moving in 1957 to Convair Astronautics (later General Dynamics Space Systems Division) in San Diego where...See more

Robert Bradley enlisted in the USAAF immediately after World War II and served in the Communication Service. After leaving the Air Force he went on to attend the University of Southern California where he graduated in 1953 with a B.Sc. in Physics. After graduation he went to work for North American Aviation in El Segundo in the Systems and Tactics Group. He was there for four years prior to moving in 1957 to Convair Astronautics (later General Dynamics Space Systems Division) in San Diego where he remained until his retirement in 1993. After his retirement in 1993 he became a volunteer archivist at the San Diego Air & Space Museum, specializing in the Museum's space and missile collection and its Convair archives. Bradley has a long-standing interest in aerospace history, with special emphasis on design studies and proposals of projects that did not reach the hardware stage. He lives with his wife Linda in the Pacific Beach community of San Diego. See less