[ARC5] Data tags and contract delivery dates

[Tom Clarke]

Sure brings back memories!  I went through advanced multi-engine training at
Corpus (VT-28) in 1967 and remember having to get a radio check with the
ARC-2 before each flight.  Most of the time it wouldn't work, in spite of
the
fact that the duty office had an ARC-2 with the antenna on the hangar just a
few hundred feet away!  The idea was that if we monitored the HF freq, the
duty officer could recall all aircraft if bad weather was coming in.

73 de Tom/W4OKW
USN Ret


-----------------------Mike
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I flew on a USAF T-29 in 1970 that still had an AN/ARC-8 (BC-348, ART-13)
installation, and in 1972 on a USN TS-2A that still had a R-23/ARC-5 and an
AN/ARC-2 installed and working.   I remember talking to one of the aviation
electronics techs at NAS Corpus Christie about how hard it was to keep such
vintage gear in operation.