[ARC5] 274N's in 1942

[Robert Eleazer]

Mike Morrow wrote: "The USN didn't use the SCR-Ax-283."

Well, I did not literally mean Signal Corps equipment being used in USN airplanes, but instead equipment of that same type, like say, the RU-16. But you say that the RU and the 283 had significant internal differences? I did not know that.

Michael Tauson wrote: "The AVG's P-40s had SCR-A*-183s (the 12v equivalent to the SCR-A*-283)
which is the same as all the early model (12v) P-40s as well as other aircraft had."

Well, that is very interesting and it makes sense. The Hawk 81A's that the AVG got were originally going to Great Britain (except for the engines). And the P-400's that the USAAF used in the Pacific were special export models that originally were going to the British as well, and came into combat with even the RAF oxygen systems that would not work with USAAF masks, so it would make sense that the radios were the same as well. The poor guys had no oxygen, crappy radios, and a less than stellar airplane.

By the way, I believe I have an original, brand new, unused tuning crank for a 283/RU. As ya'll probably know, it's a bit bigger than the one for the 274N. If anyone needs it let me know.