William "Bill" E. Bullen Jr., age 89, born in Johnson City, TN Dec 10, 1927, passed away Mar 20, 2017 in Knoxville, TN, the last of his generation, after a multi-year lingering lung problem.
a friend of the Farragut Presbyterian Church
Central High School class of 1947 - lettered in football and basketball
attended the University o Tennessee in 1947-1948 - Sigma Nu Fraternity member
Formal education completed at Inglewood, CA., Electronic Institute in 1956
Preceded in death by:
Father - William E. Bullen, Sr.
Mother - Pauline B. Bullen
Son - Ronald H. Bullen
Brother - Edward M. Bullen
Sisters - Mrs. Anna Lee Breeden, Mary Katherine Crook and Nancy Louise Bullen
Survived by:
Wife - Vivian M. Bullen, beloved soul-mate and care-giver
Son - William E. Bullen III of Los Angeles, CA
Step-children - Victoria C. Lipinski of Fairfax, VA, Micki C. Merlino of Riverside, CA, Kristen C. Bentley of Nashville, TN, Creg Carter of Knoxville
Nieces - Claudia B. Savage, Paula B. Lowther, Alesa B. Tollinchi, Kathryn I. Payne, Salece Miller, Donna B. Dickson
Nephews - Frederick Inklebarger, Eddie Bullen and Jeff Barlow
Veteran - Korean War honorably discharged Sergeant-First-Class 1951-1953 in charge of the Range Platoon. This unit involved a remote radar, six 90-120 mm electronically controlled anti-aircraft guns.
46 year career in the Aerospace Industry
And at this time he was a member of Hughes Aircraft Radar Section. He was assigned to a team of four that was given the task of increasing the "State-Of-The-Art" in slotted board-band planar array design. This was a must"have radar component that would accommodate the military's mach1-2 jet aircraft being commissioned in the field. Success here would more that double the detectable and fire control range as compared to the Parabolic Dish in use at the time along with improved mechanics of the aircraft. There was success and Bill was to spend the next 20 years contributing to the designs, developments, responsible for the specified electrical parameters, Liaising Engineering to production while yielding radar antennas for the U.S. Navy's F-14 ‘Tomcat", the Air Force's F-15 "Eagle", the F-16 "Thunderbird, and the Navy/Maries F-18 "Hornet".
In 1983 and 28 years at HAC, Bill chose early retirement. He relocated to the Engineering Dept o Microwave Products located in Chatsworth, CA. Here as an active minority owner he enjoyed the development challenges presented by several USA radar producing companies such as Norden Industries/United Technologies for their experimental strike-fighter, General Dynamics's shipboard "Phalanx" anti-missile arrays, Hughes Missile Division's "fire and forget" "AMRAAM" antenna along with weather radar antennas for commercial airlines to RCA and Raytheon. Bill left Microwave Products in 1988 and joined General Dynamics which was bought by HAC in 1992 and Bill was back at Hughes. He retired once again in 1995 but was called back in 1996-97 as a consultant to a team that was modifying the ‘Phalanx" arrays which would be installed in project ‘Centurion" which was part of Israel's "Iron Dome Defense".
Bill retired as a "Senior Engineering Specialist". He held U.S. Patents in "Cross-Polarized Dual Band (rf), Dual Mode (rf-ir) Image Place Arrays" and "Cross Polarized Dual Band Radomes".
Bill's spare time passions consisted of a deep seated need for athletic competition, staying active and contributing. He enjoyed league basketball and softball until he was 52, golf till 72 and tennis thru his eighty-fifth birthday. In 1959 he was asked by Hughes Management to assume the Managing Director position for basketball. There was one league, six teams and 60 players. In the ensuing years he grew it to 6 leagues, 48 teams and over 500 players. He was a certified basket official for about 10 years active calling games in the "California Interscholastic Federation". Bill was co-founder and president of "Golf Adventures Players Ass." Whose motto was: "We Play The Courses The Pros Play" and living up to their motto, the GAPA team organized and led their groups to elite courses including Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill, Riviera, Torrey Pines, Pinehurst #2, Doral, New Zealand, Acapulco, plus a signature 1979 trip where 114 golfers enjoyed eleven day 3 island 36 hole tournament per island ending with a memorable Luau on Kauai. "For The Love Of The Games And The People Who Play Them."
Services honoring and remembering Bill will be announced later.
Information courtesy of Click Funeral Home and Cremations Middlebrook Chapel.
a friend of the Farragut Presbyterian Church
Central High School class of 1947 - lettered in football and basketball
attended the University o Tennessee in 1947-1948 - Sigma Nu Fraternity member
Formal education completed at Inglewood, CA., Electronic Institute in 1956
Preceded in death by:
Father - William E. Bullen, Sr.
Mother - Pauline B. Bullen
Son - Ronald H. Bullen
Brother - Edward M. Bullen
Sisters - Mrs. Anna Lee Breeden, Mary Katherine Crook and Nancy Louise Bullen
Survived by:
Wife - Vivian M. Bullen, beloved soul-mate and care-giver
Son - William E. Bullen III of Los Angeles, CA
Step-children - Victoria C. Lipinski of Fairfax, VA, Micki C. Merlino of Riverside, CA, Kristen C. Bentley of Nashville, TN, Creg Carter of Knoxville
Nieces - Claudia B. Savage, Paula B. Lowther, Alesa B. Tollinchi, Kathryn I. Payne, Salece Miller, Donna B. Dickson
Nephews - Frederick Inklebarger, Eddie Bullen and Jeff Barlow
Veteran - Korean War honorably discharged Sergeant-First-Class 1951-1953 in charge of the Range Platoon. This unit involved a remote radar, six 90-120 mm electronically controlled anti-aircraft guns.
46 year career in the Aerospace Industry
And at this time he was a member of Hughes Aircraft Radar Section. He was assigned to a team of four that was given the task of increasing the "State-Of-The-Art" in slotted board-band planar array design. This was a must"have radar component that would accommodate the military's mach1-2 jet aircraft being commissioned in the field. Success here would more that double the detectable and fire control range as compared to the Parabolic Dish in use at the time along with improved mechanics of the aircraft. There was success and Bill was to spend the next 20 years contributing to the designs, developments, responsible for the specified electrical parameters, Liaising Engineering to production while yielding radar antennas for the U.S. Navy's F-14 ‘Tomcat", the Air Force's F-15 "Eagle", the F-16 "Thunderbird, and the Navy/Maries F-18 "Hornet".
In 1983 and 28 years at HAC, Bill chose early retirement. He relocated to the Engineering Dept o Microwave Products located in Chatsworth, CA. Here as an active minority owner he enjoyed the development challenges presented by several USA radar producing companies such as Norden Industries/United Technologies for their experimental strike-fighter, General Dynamics's shipboard "Phalanx" anti-missile arrays, Hughes Missile Division's "fire and forget" "AMRAAM" antenna along with weather radar antennas for commercial airlines to RCA and Raytheon. Bill left Microwave Products in 1988 and joined General Dynamics which was bought by HAC in 1992 and Bill was back at Hughes. He retired once again in 1995 but was called back in 1996-97 as a consultant to a team that was modifying the ‘Phalanx" arrays which would be installed in project ‘Centurion" which was part of Israel's "Iron Dome Defense".
Bill retired as a "Senior Engineering Specialist". He held U.S. Patents in "Cross-Polarized Dual Band (rf), Dual Mode (rf-ir) Image Place Arrays" and "Cross Polarized Dual Band Radomes".
Bill's spare time passions consisted of a deep seated need for athletic competition, staying active and contributing. He enjoyed league basketball and softball until he was 52, golf till 72 and tennis thru his eighty-fifth birthday. In 1959 he was asked by Hughes Management to assume the Managing Director position for basketball. There was one league, six teams and 60 players. In the ensuing years he grew it to 6 leagues, 48 teams and over 500 players. He was a certified basket official for about 10 years active calling games in the "California Interscholastic Federation". Bill was co-founder and president of "Golf Adventures Players Ass." Whose motto was: "We Play The Courses The Pros Play" and living up to their motto, the GAPA team organized and led their groups to elite courses including Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill, Riviera, Torrey Pines, Pinehurst #2, Doral, New Zealand, Acapulco, plus a signature 1979 trip where 114 golfers enjoyed eleven day 3 island 36 hole tournament per island ending with a memorable Luau on Kauai. "For The Love Of The Games And The People Who Play Them."
Services honoring and remembering Bill will be announced later.
Information courtesy of Click Funeral Home and Cremations Middlebrook Chapel.
William "Bill" E. Bullen Jr., age 89, born in Johnson City, TN Dec 10, 1927, passed away Mar 20, 2017 in Knoxville, TN, the last of his generation, after a multi-year lingering lung problem.
a friend of the Farragut Presbyterian Church
Central High School class of 1947 - lettered in football and basketball
attended the University o Tennessee in 1947-1948 - Sigma Nu Fraternity member
Formal education completed at Inglewood, CA., Electronic Institute in 1956
Preceded in death by:
Father - William E. Bullen, Sr.
Mother - Pauline B. Bullen
Son - Ronald H. Bullen
Brother - Edward M. Bullen
Sisters - Mrs. Anna Lee Breeden, Mary Katherine Crook and Nancy Louise Bullen
Survived by:
Wife - Vivian M. Bullen, beloved soul-mate and care-giver
Son - William E. Bullen III of Los Angeles, CA
Step-children - Victoria C. Lipinski of Fairfax, VA, Micki C. Merlino of Riverside, CA, Kristen C. Bentley of Nashville, TN, Creg Carter of Knoxville
Nieces - Claudia B. Savage, Paula B. Lowther, Alesa B. Tollinchi, Kathryn I. Payne, Salece Miller, Donna B. Dickson
Nephews - Frederick Inklebarger, Eddie Bullen and Jeff Barlow
Veteran - Korean War honorably discharged Sergeant-First-Class 1951-1953 in charge of the Range Platoon. This unit involved a remote radar, six 90-120 mm electronically controlled anti-aircraft guns.
46 year career in the Aerospace Industry
And at this time he was a member of Hughes Aircraft Radar Section. He was assigned to a team of four that was given the task of increasing the "State-Of-The-Art" in slotted board-band planar array design. This was a must"have radar component that would accommodate the military's mach1-2 jet aircraft being commissioned in the field. Success here would more that double the detectable and fire control range as compared to the Parabolic Dish in use at the time along with improved mechanics of the aircraft. There was success and Bill was to spend the next 20 years contributing to the designs, developments, responsible for the specified electrical parameters, Liaising Engineering to production while yielding radar antennas for the U.S. Navy's F-14 ‘Tomcat", the Air Force's F-15 "Eagle", the F-16 "Thunderbird, and the Navy/Maries F-18 "Hornet".
In 1983 and 28 years at HAC, Bill chose early retirement. He relocated to the Engineering Dept o Microwave Products located in Chatsworth, CA. Here as an active minority owner he enjoyed the development challenges presented by several USA radar producing companies such as Norden Industries/United Technologies for their experimental strike-fighter, General Dynamics's shipboard "Phalanx" anti-missile arrays, Hughes Missile Division's "fire and forget" "AMRAAM" antenna along with weather radar antennas for commercial airlines to RCA and Raytheon. Bill left Microwave Products in 1988 and joined General Dynamics which was bought by HAC in 1992 and Bill was back at Hughes. He retired once again in 1995 but was called back in 1996-97 as a consultant to a team that was modifying the ‘Phalanx" arrays which would be installed in project ‘Centurion" which was part of Israel's "Iron Dome Defense".
Bill retired as a "Senior Engineering Specialist". He held U.S. Patents in "Cross-Polarized Dual Band (rf), Dual Mode (rf-ir) Image Place Arrays" and "Cross Polarized Dual Band Radomes".
Bill's spare time passions consisted of a deep seated need for athletic competition, staying active and contributing. He enjoyed league basketball and softball until he was 52, golf till 72 and tennis thru his eighty-fifth birthday. In 1959 he was asked by Hughes Management to assume the Managing Director position for basketball. There was one league, six teams and 60 players. In the ensuing years he grew it to 6 leagues, 48 teams and over 500 players. He was a certified basket official for about 10 years active calling games in the "California Interscholastic Federation". Bill was co-founder and president of "Golf Adventures Players Ass." Whose motto was: "We Play The Courses The Pros Play" and living up to their motto, the GAPA team organized and led their groups to elite courses including Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill, Riviera, Torrey Pines, Pinehurst #2, Doral, New Zealand, Acapulco, plus a signature 1979 trip where 114 golfers enjoyed eleven day 3 island 36 hole tournament per island ending with a memorable Luau on Kauai. "For The Love Of The Games And The People Who Play Them."
Services honoring and remembering Bill will be announced later.
Information courtesy of Click Funeral Home and Cremations Middlebrook Chapel.
a friend of the Farragut Presbyterian Church
Central High School class of 1947 - lettered in football and basketball
attended the University o Tennessee in 1947-1948 - Sigma Nu Fraternity member
Formal education completed at Inglewood, CA., Electronic Institute in 1956
Preceded in death by:
Father - William E. Bullen, Sr.
Mother - Pauline B. Bullen
Son - Ronald H. Bullen
Brother - Edward M. Bullen
Sisters - Mrs. Anna Lee Breeden, Mary Katherine Crook and Nancy Louise Bullen
Survived by:
Wife - Vivian M. Bullen, beloved soul-mate and care-giver
Son - William E. Bullen III of Los Angeles, CA
Step-children - Victoria C. Lipinski of Fairfax, VA, Micki C. Merlino of Riverside, CA, Kristen C. Bentley of Nashville, TN, Creg Carter of Knoxville
Nieces - Claudia B. Savage, Paula B. Lowther, Alesa B. Tollinchi, Kathryn I. Payne, Salece Miller, Donna B. Dickson
Nephews - Frederick Inklebarger, Eddie Bullen and Jeff Barlow
Veteran - Korean War honorably discharged Sergeant-First-Class 1951-1953 in charge of the Range Platoon. This unit involved a remote radar, six 90-120 mm electronically controlled anti-aircraft guns.
46 year career in the Aerospace Industry
And at this time he was a member of Hughes Aircraft Radar Section. He was assigned to a team of four that was given the task of increasing the "State-Of-The-Art" in slotted board-band planar array design. This was a must"have radar component that would accommodate the military's mach1-2 jet aircraft being commissioned in the field. Success here would more that double the detectable and fire control range as compared to the Parabolic Dish in use at the time along with improved mechanics of the aircraft. There was success and Bill was to spend the next 20 years contributing to the designs, developments, responsible for the specified electrical parameters, Liaising Engineering to production while yielding radar antennas for the U.S. Navy's F-14 ‘Tomcat", the Air Force's F-15 "Eagle", the F-16 "Thunderbird, and the Navy/Maries F-18 "Hornet".
In 1983 and 28 years at HAC, Bill chose early retirement. He relocated to the Engineering Dept o Microwave Products located in Chatsworth, CA. Here as an active minority owner he enjoyed the development challenges presented by several USA radar producing companies such as Norden Industries/United Technologies for their experimental strike-fighter, General Dynamics's shipboard "Phalanx" anti-missile arrays, Hughes Missile Division's "fire and forget" "AMRAAM" antenna along with weather radar antennas for commercial airlines to RCA and Raytheon. Bill left Microwave Products in 1988 and joined General Dynamics which was bought by HAC in 1992 and Bill was back at Hughes. He retired once again in 1995 but was called back in 1996-97 as a consultant to a team that was modifying the ‘Phalanx" arrays which would be installed in project ‘Centurion" which was part of Israel's "Iron Dome Defense".
Bill retired as a "Senior Engineering Specialist". He held U.S. Patents in "Cross-Polarized Dual Band (rf), Dual Mode (rf-ir) Image Place Arrays" and "Cross Polarized Dual Band Radomes".
Bill's spare time passions consisted of a deep seated need for athletic competition, staying active and contributing. He enjoyed league basketball and softball until he was 52, golf till 72 and tennis thru his eighty-fifth birthday. In 1959 he was asked by Hughes Management to assume the Managing Director position for basketball. There was one league, six teams and 60 players. In the ensuing years he grew it to 6 leagues, 48 teams and over 500 players. He was a certified basket official for about 10 years active calling games in the "California Interscholastic Federation". Bill was co-founder and president of "Golf Adventures Players Ass." Whose motto was: "We Play The Courses The Pros Play" and living up to their motto, the GAPA team organized and led their groups to elite courses including Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill, Riviera, Torrey Pines, Pinehurst #2, Doral, New Zealand, Acapulco, plus a signature 1979 trip where 114 golfers enjoyed eleven day 3 island 36 hole tournament per island ending with a memorable Luau on Kauai. "For The Love Of The Games And The People Who Play Them."
Services honoring and remembering Bill will be announced later.
Information courtesy of Click Funeral Home and Cremations Middlebrook Chapel.
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