Both Bateman and Daly wonder whether the decades-long effort to develop and improve the warning system would be possible in today’s risk-averse corporate world.
“Today new projects need to be blessed by many people,” Daly said. “You need to have hard evidence. They just would not speculatively fund something like this, especially when we were being resisted by the aircraft manufacturers, the airlines.
“But Don’s faith, the genius of his team and a little support from the company -- and it happened.”
That is an interesting point. At some stages his ideas were considered "crazy" , ( ie getting the terrain data from Russia). If it was all happening now I imagine he would have been stone-walled at several different stages along the way. Progress?