Wilbur Allen served in the USAF and is a former White House/Air Force One engineer who worked for Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton on Air Force One, Air Force 2 and Marine 2. He has also been a contract photographer for National Geographic. He lives in Washington, D.C. and holds a number of degrees from Howard University, including a technical PhD. “For my PhD, I took the technical design specifications associated with NASA Hubble (ISO 1600), and created from existing components a more advanced system with IR variability in a Real Time environment. The technology I used did not previously exist and had to be created. I augmented existing technology, modifying its original design specifications for IR applications.”