John Kropf – Vice President, Electrical Engineering
Naval Aviator, Engineer, College Instructor in Science and Engineering, Computers, Marketing, New Ideas, ExperimentsBachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering – University of Washington
Master’s of Science in Electronics Engineering – United States Post Graduate School (USNPGS), Monterey, California (computer emphasis)
Test and Evaluation for Chief of Naval Operations – Wrote and implemented test plans on future Navy Communications systems.
Taught Sophomore and Junior physics at United States Naval Academy (3years)
US Naval Aviator – 21+ years*
Director of Computer Services – Seattle Pacific University ~ 8+ years Taught Computer Science class each quarter. Students in demand by local services.
Self employed, Micro Computer Data Management for Schools 10+ years
Father of four, Grandfather of nine, Great Grandfather of six – At least 15 years of advocating for a new type of transportation system for the future of these children (and all of mankind). Finally found it in the only completely new technology using Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories passive magnetic levitation Inductrack invented in 1998, combined with super light weight aerospace/aeronautical designed people mover invented by Douglas J. Malewicki.
Dedicated to seeing that all mankind benefits from new transportation technologies. Plans on marketing recreational riding toys for kids’ aged 3 to 93 in addition to the working commuter vehicles that will revolutionize the way we live, work, play and transport goods.
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John Kropf
This photo of John "racing" his 9th grandchild, Galen (age 5 and a 1/2) has been posted on MSNBC's Picture of the Week site since April 02.
John's quartet, "7th Heaven", gave a "singing valentine" to Galen's kindergarten teacher for Valentine's Day. (It was a quintet on this occasion as Galen sang with them.)
Galen is "showing off" (for benefit of the little blond girl) in the riding train picture at age four. Built by John for the kids out of re-cycle boxes and powered by the "old folk's" scooter in the second photo! A MagLev kid's ride-on toy is next!Back to CONTACT page
*Interesting personal footnotes about John's aviation experiences:
Every Naval Aviator has to make 6 landings and take-offs' from a carrier. It's the most fun thing I ever did. Unfortunately (or fortunately, have a lot of buddies no longer with us) I never saw carrier duty other than part of ship's company instead of a squadron. Also, although I was available for action during the Korean and Vietnam wars, I never came close to seeing any action. I was in the P2V squadron during the Korean war. Our squadron was the only mining squadron in the Pacific. We were considered expendable in case of war with Russia. Our job was to mine Vladivostok Harbor, which at that time would have been a virtually one-way trip with no known place to land.The Sky Raider and jet time was in a Utility Squadron in Hawaii (tough duty) where we serviced the fleet on their way west. The Sky Raider had a fat body so we could carry passengers as well as crew to operate the towed targets ships and aircraft shot live ammo at (I came back with 6" of cable on one flight, so there was an element of danger when the radar tracked up the wire to the airplane). The jets were used to tow targets for air-to-air missile practice. When I was aboard ship in CIC (Combat Information Center), one of our planes shot a Sparrow missile that locked on to the towing flight (with two escorts) instead of the target. The guys I later flew with remembered the incident. They did a three-way break on command, and the missile flew right through the middle of the group. The other use, was to chase and land the Regulus missiles from the sub fleet. It was great duty, but there were a few dangers.I was a flight instructor for two years. Had to bail out with a student because we couldn't recover from an inverted spin. We flew three flights a day (in general), so gathered a lot of flight time in the training aircraft. It was probably the most dangerous duty. Those students were always trying to "kill" you. Lot of good stories.
