[ARC5] Radio release of bombs

Unserviceable but Repairable cosmoline at ba-watch.org
Wed Apr 20 10:40:03 EDT 2005



This sed...

} Hi Giuseppe, I remember using radio release on some missions during April
} '45. Just prior to the mission I would plug in a wire into a small box which
} would release the bombs at the target by a radio signal transmitted from the
} lead plane at bomb drop. Manual release was by a toggle switch punched by
} bombardiers in the formation other than the lead bombardier after they saw
} bombs come out of the lead ship..... 

Taigh, a confession.  I'm a huge nomenclature sinner, but will venture 
that the AN/ARW-9 transmitter and AN/ARW-10 receiver were built for just
this purpose.  

A second opinion is at

              http://hereford.ampr.org/millist/m4.html 

There's a transmitter 'in stock' here & it shows use of many pieces 
from a 75mhz marker-beacon transmitter called a BC-400.  It had
the multi-tone feature of a glide-bomb ARW-16.*  But the
xtra oscillators were uninstalled. 

I was hoping to assemble a working demo system, but it wasn't to be.
Came close though since I was once offered a mating receiver.  But the 
twerp RENEGGED & it went elsewhere.

Looks like all of our WW2 remote control systems got parked in the marker
beacon frequency window.

   Marty

*one of these in a "open-cockpit B-17" proved the undoing of Joe Kennedy, Sr's
 oldest boy

         ----and----

 Taigh - I've lots of passenger time in a twin bonanza 't-bird'


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