[ARC5] R-25/ARC-5 Stabilized Receiver

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My Father-in-law said earlier tonight that 22-24,000 feet, the normal bombing 
altitude of the B-24, was damn well cold enough.

In a message dated 12/12/2007 7:14:58 PM Central Standard Time, 
gewhite at crosslink.net writes: 
>    There are many imperfectly-known aspects to the employment of radio 
> in WW II, but I do know Aircraft Radio Corp. sent engineers to England 
> to deal with the problem of mis-tuned equipment and that the 
> "stabilized" receivers were an outgrowth of that trip. I do not know 
> whether they were used in fighters or bombers or just what. Maybe what 
> they found in Eighth AF usage was never translated into Air Corps 
> equipment and was just coincidentally incorporated into USN AN/ARC-5.  I 
> have no evidence that it was incorporated into any SCR-274-N HF units. 
> My comment about using the gear to 40,000 feet was just sort of a  
> figure of speech, backed up the the P-51-D specs.

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