Maintenance Technician John Ledoux of the Army National Guard in Vermont could not help noticing how difficult it was to test the infrared night-flight lights on Army helicopters. Wearing unwieldy goggles that cost $4,500 a pair, engineers crouched below the grounded choppers to check their lights. There had to be a better way.
Three weeks later Ledoux had found it. With parts picked up at a local Radio Shack store, the first-time inventor developed an infrared tester the size of a cigarette pack that could easily be held near the lights. And the price was right: just $8.70 to buy a...
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