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+<title>Bill Wattenburg’s Background: Helicopter Minesweeper</title>
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+<h1>Helicopters to Clear Minefields</h1>
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+<h2>(1990)</h2>
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+<p>His most recent invention is a new device for clearing minefields out of war zones during
+the Gulf War. He designed a thing called a “chain matrix” which is pulled by a helicopter over the
+ground to dig up the mines and explode them without endangering people. The story (San
+Francisco Chronicle, March 8, 1991, front page) picked up the human interest side because he
+had used a small blacksmith’s shop in a farming town to build the first prototypes and local
+farmers to test the devices when major defense contractors would not move fast enough to please
+him.</p>
+
+<p>Wattenburg really didn’t want to talk about it beyond what was disclosed in the many
+press stories about his helicopter minesweeper. He told us to contact the Livermore National
+Laboratory for anything more we wanted to know. He mentioned that some parts of his design
+were now classified and that the full details of the design were not disclosed to the press for
+obvious reasons. He did say that the version that was tested at the Yuma Proving Grounds was
+“not quite as clumsy and contained things a little more sophisticated than what the newspaper
+stories showed.”</p>
+
+<p>The Livermore Lab spokesperson would not comment beyond the press stories. He did
+say that Wattenburg would soon be issued a patent on the unclassified portions of the
+minesweeper design. He said that this device also appears to have great application in farming
+operations in areas where the ground is very rocky. He said that Livermore engineers were
+already in contact with manufacturers of agriculture equipment. He laughed when he told us that
+“Wattenburg says that the last thing he ever wants to see again is a farm.”</p>
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