[ARC5] Inflicting Your Collection on Relatives
Larry Godek
telegrapher at att.net
Wed Jul 28 02:01:34 EDT 2010
The XC-99 has been moved to or is being moved to Wright Pat. There was an article about it a couple years ago in the Air Force Magazine. Forget what the time frame for it was.
I remember seeing it when i was at Lackland in 1959.
Of other Aircraft, the B-36 that was at the DFW airport for years has now been moved to Pima Air Museum in Tucson. When i was going to Teletype school (Mod 28s) in Dallas around the 1974-75 time frame i happened to be out wandering around exploring the so called neighborhood one Saturday. Saw it setting, at that time off the DFW airport but they were preparing to move it. I stopped in and asked if i could take a look around. They said sure so i went onboard. talk about impressive! I think they had the props removed and were starting to remove the engines at that time. Didn't ride the little dolly from front to back but it was and is still an impressive aircraft. Don't know if there were any electronics on board or not as i didn't get into the back of the airplane and since that was 36 or so years back i don't recall if i actually saw any on her at all.
There is as far as i know one other B-36 still in one piece but she is in pretty sad shape. thats over in california. I want to say the old Castle AFB but i'm not sure if that's correct or not. They did have a pretty nice collection of aircraft including a British bomber.
What a beautiful airplane the 36 was. Called the "Queen".
.
Larry
W0OGH
--- On Tue, 7/27/10, Don Merz <n3rht at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Don Merz <n3rht at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Inflicting Your Collection on Relatives
To: "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment." <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 9:28 AM
Hey! get your nomenclature right! The members of this list are VERY picky...
73, Don M.
----- Original Message ----
From: "Clarke, Tom AIR4.0P NATOPS" <frederic.clarke at navy.mil>
To: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment. <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 9:42:50 AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Inflicting Your Collection on Relatives
Oops! That was the F-82 Twin Mustang! Talk about rare!
73 de Tom/W4OKW
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Pewitt [mailto:garypewitt at centurytel.net]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 7:50 PM
To: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment.
Cc: Roy Morgan
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Inflicting Your Collection on Relatives
And to think you could buy a completely re-manufactured P-51 called a
Caviler 2000 for $15,000.00 in the late sixties. They had a back seat
added in the radio position and the machine gun bays held luggage. That
price, by the way, was the same as a top of the line Ferrari Super
America. The P-38 would most likely be worth much more than a P-51 as
it is considerably more rare. When I was a teenager living on Lackland
AFB in the late 50's there was an F-81 on Display. That's two P-51s
stuck together to make an even longer range bomber escort. Now that
would -really- be rare. They also had the one and only XC-199, a
cargo/troop carrier version of the B-36. Sure hope the didn't scrap
it. There was probably some ARC gear in the B-25 and B-17 on display to
keep this at least a little on topic. ;-)
73 Gary N9ZSV
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