[ARC5] Oh, Brother...

[jay_coward at agilent.com]

As a little sideline to Gordon's comments; I grew up in a tiny town next to Caldwell N.J. and my high school was in West Caldwell.Our bus route took us by Caldwell-Wright.At that time there was a B-25 sitting on the field and under the cockpit windscreen was written"The Battle of Britain".All the plexiglass "blisters" were optically clear bubbles for the cameras.
 I had an opportunity to get a close look and stood up in the open bomb bay to look around.Just forward of the bay was a Bendix MN-26 RDF but that was all I could see for radios.
 When in grade school, there was a B-17 at Caldwell-Wright that had 5 engines.The 5th being the test sample.Pretty cool looking too.
 Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gordon White
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 5:37 PM
To: Gordon White
Cc: David Stinson; ARC-5
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Oh, Brother...

All:
   I have scanned some interesting, I think. Aircraft Radio Corp. 
documents from my files, including a 50 share stock certificate (the 
corporate seal is dated 1924),  a letter from Jimmy Doolittle to A.R.C 
President  L.M. Hull of 9/17/1932, another Doolittle letter to A.W. 
Parkes of 10/26/1932, and a third Doolittle letter of 3/28/1932 to Luff 
Meredith,. the A.R.C. pilot, with an 11/12/1931 letter from Tom C. Rives 
of the Signal Corps to Hull. Also A.R.C. and RFL letterheads  and a 50 
share stock certificate.

   Caldwell, N.J., was the Curtiss-Wright plant's field.

   I think these are revealing as they show the degree of intimacy 
between Doolittle and the folks at Boonton.

http://www.crosslink.net/~gewhite/ARCStock.jpg

http://www.crosslink.net/~gewhite/ARCdoolittle.jpg

http://www.crosslink.net/~gewhite/ARCHULL.jpg

http://www.crosslink.net/~gewhite/ARCluff.jpg

http://www.crosslink.net/~gewhite/ARCshell.jpg

http://www.crosslink.net/~gewhite/ARCRFLletterhead.jpg

http://www.crosslink.net/~gewhite/ARCletterhead.jpg

http://www.,crosslink.net/~gewhite/ARCwardept.jpg






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