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February 21, 2014
Services
A Memorial Service will be held on March 15 at 4 pm at the Church of Sweden, 5 East 48th Street, New York, NY 10017 (telephone 212 832 8443)
LJUNG - Bo Hans Gunnar
died February 21 at the age of 75 at home in Wayne, NJ. He was born on June 25 1938 in Stockholm, Sweden. Bo was diagnosed in April with a rare lung cancer.
Bo graduated 1962 with a Masters of Science in mechanical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He served as Captain Flight Engineer in the Royal Swedish Air Force, where he received jet flight training and was responsible for the guidance and navigation systems and heads-up/heads-down display system for the Saab AJ-37 Viggen jet fighter. In 1968 he requested a 3-5 year leave absence to move his family to California for research. In 1972 the family moved to NJ to experience living on both coasts before returning to Sweden, but they stayed another 40 years living in the Packanack Lake section of Wayne. As a research scientist he was a prolific inventor with some 50 patents for guidance and navigation systems including inertial grade accelerometers, floated gas bearing spinning wheel, three axis ring laser and vibrating gyroscopes developed at both Litton Industries in California and Singer-Kearfott in New Jersey. Bo became a US citizen in 1985 having worked on navigation and guidance systems for several military aircraft, missiles, and submarines including the recent Firescout autonomous helicopter, the Global Hawk autonomous aircraft, the Remus autonomous submarine and the Navy’s laser weapon system. Bo started his own company to develop silicon micro-machined accelerometers and gyroscopes. In his workshop Bo was an avid experimenter building tools to build his new inventions. He invented an underwater horn to let scuba divers communicate over large distances, and liked squeaking it close to shore to see swimmers react to “dolphins”. Bo was always a very humble man, and all his friends laughed when he would answer a particularly difficult question with “That is common knowledge”.
Bo shared his love of nature with his family including backpacking, ice skating, skiing, scuba diving, whitewater canoeing, sailing and biking. He had been active in Packanack Scouting as a Webelos leader, a Director of the John Ericsson Society in NYC, and a Trustee of the Board at the Swedish Church in NYC. He was the proud father of two Eagle Scouts. He sailed Sunfish in Packanack Lake winning the championship 1973-1982. After retirement he enjoyed spending summers sailing on his 36 footer in the Stockholm archipelago with his wife Gunhild.
He is survived by his wife Gunhild of 52 years, son Per with wife Barbara in Oakland California and son Fredrik with fiancé Therese in Stockholm and two grandsons, Nils and Axel.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to NPR or Dr Gregory Riely's Lung Cancer Research, c/o MSKCC, 300 East 66th Street, New York, NY 10065
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A Memorial Service will be held on March 15 at 4 pm at the Church of Sweden, 5 East 48th Street, New York, NY 10017 (telephone 212 832 8443)
February 21, 2014
Services
A Memorial Service will be held on March 15 at 4 pm at the Church of Sweden, 5 East 48th Street, New York, NY 10017 (telephone 212 832 8443)
LJUNG - Bo Hans Gunnar
died February 21 at the age of 75 at home in Wayne, NJ. He was born on June 25 1938 in Stockholm, Sweden. Bo was diagnosed in April with a rare lung cancer.
Bo graduated 1962 with a Masters of Science in mechanical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He served as Captain Flight Engineer in the Royal Swedish Air Force, where he received jet flight training and was responsible for the guidance and navigation systems and heads-up/heads-down display system for the Saab AJ-37 Viggen jet fighter. In 1968 he requested a 3-5 year leave absence to move his family to California for research. In 1972 the family moved to NJ to experience living on both coasts before returning to Sweden, but they stayed another 40 years living in the Packanack Lake section of Wayne. As a research scientist he was a prolific inventor with some 50 patents for guidance and navigation systems including inertial grade accelerometers, floated gas bearing spinning wheel, three axis ring laser and vibrating gyroscopes developed at both Litton Industries in California and Singer-Kearfott in New Jersey. Bo became a US citizen in 1985 having worked on navigation and guidance systems for several military aircraft, missiles, and submarines including the recent Firescout autonomous helicopter, the Global Hawk autonomous aircraft, the Remus autonomous submarine and the Navy’s laser weapon system. Bo started his own company to develop silicon micro-machined accelerometers and gyroscopes. In his workshop Bo was an avid experimenter building tools to build his new inventions. He invented an underwater horn to let scuba divers communicate over large distances, and liked squeaking it close to shore to see swimmers react to “dolphins”. Bo was always a very humble man, and all his friends laughed when he would answer a particularly difficult question with “That is common knowledge”.
Bo shared his love of nature with his family including backpacking, ice skating, skiing, scuba diving, whitewater canoeing, sailing and biking. He had been active in Packanack Scouting as a Webelos leader, a Director of the John Ericsson Society in NYC, and a Trustee of the Board at the Swedish Church in NYC. He was the proud father of two Eagle Scouts. He sailed Sunfish in Packanack Lake winning the championship 1973-1982. After retirement he enjoyed spending summers sailing on his 36 footer in the Stockholm archipelago with his wife Gunhild.
He is survived by his wife Gunhild of 52 years, son Per with wife Barbara in Oakland California and son Fredrik with fiancé Therese in Stockholm and two grandsons, Nils and Axel.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to NPR or Dr Gregory Riely's Lung Cancer Research, c/o MSKCC, 300 East 66th Street, New York, NY 10065
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