[ARC5] Collins ARC-2 Going Cheap

[Mike Morrow]

>The S-2, C-1 and E-1 also had the ARC-2 installed. Semi-Warcraft!
>They don't shoot!

But Tom, the S-2 was a weapons delivery aircraft in most of its
configurations.  I was on the USS Intrepid (CVS-11) in 1971, which
carried S-2E Trackers.  I believe they could carry rockets, torpedoes,
and depth bombs.

That's "shooting" to me!

These front-line S-2E aircraft probably had something like the AN/ARC-94
in place by 1971, unlike those training-use TS-2A aircraft that had only
left-over gear like the AN/ARC-2, AN/ARC-27, AN/ARN-6, and R-23/ARC-5
from their mid- to late-1950s carrier careers.

The TS-2A aircraft didn't seem to get much respect at NAS Corpus.  While
I was sitting in one of the crewmember positions back aft, I started reading
all the graffiti written on the control panel framework where all the sub-
hunting gear had been ripped out.  One said "Built by the Brooklyn Railroad
Scrap Iron Company, 1913".  The one that I liked best pointed to the escape
hatch in the overhead and said "Do Not Exceed Mach 2 With Hatch Open".

Mike / KK5F