[ARC5] ARC-5/SCR-274 Navagation Receivers?

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 30 Apr 2011 at 10:44, gordon white wrote:

> Remember the B-24 returning to his base in, I think, Libya, after
> bombing the continent?  Was homing (DF I guess) on his station, but
> flew over it without realizing that and  ran out of fuel some hundreds
> of miles into the desert where he crash-landed. They tried to walk out
> but did not make it. The bodies were found by Bedouins in 1959.

As I remember the story, the station on which they were homing was NOT a 
"Range" station, but was only a simple communications transmitter which 
provided a carrier to home on.

The B-24 had only a simple loop with no sense antenna and could not 
resolve the 180 degree ambiguity.

Also, as I understand it, they did not directly over-fly the transmitter.

In any case, someone in the crew screwed up....badly.

Also, from what I remember reading, the B-24s radio system was still 
working when it was found, since the search party used that to contact their 
base when their own radios failed for one reason or another.

I thought the radio system was the ARC-5, but it may have been the BC-375.

Wasn't the name of the B-24 the "Lady Be Good" ?

Ken W7EKB