[ARC5] Usage of large command set racks?

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Hmmmm.  supposedly the Sacred Cow is at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson. 
Or maybe it's the Independence.   I'll have to check that out next time 
down there.  Remember seeing one of them setting outside the museum 
building but don't remember which one.  It was the C-54/118 variant 
aircraft tho.

Larry
W0OGH




Dean wrote:

> Mike -
> 
>> Mike Morrow wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone run across any pictures or other documentation of the 
>>> service use
>>> of AN/ARC-5 or SCR-274-N racks for *more* than three receivers or 
>>> more than
>>> two transmitters.  I know that some array of such racks existed, but 
>>> I've
>>> never seen documentation of their actual service use. 
>>
>>
> When I bought a 4 transmitter rack (FT-331-A, aluminum) a couple of 
> years ago, I asked the seller if he had ever seen one in an aircraft 
> installation.  He indicated that he believed that there is a display of 
> one in the USAF museum in one of the earliest presidential planes, which 
> would be either the VC-54-C "Sacred Cow" of President Roosevelt or the 
> VC-118 "Independence" of President Truman.  I do not know if this was 
> his first hand observation or someone told him about it.
> 
> Anybody familiar with the USAF museum Presidential airplanes at 
> Wright-Pat?  Or could this be a standard installation on any multiengine 
> VIP tranport of the times?
> 
> Regards -- Dean Billing  WA6IKJ
> 
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