[ARC5] Basic Question on Use of Command Sets

[J. Forster]

Mac,

Years ago, maybe 1980, I got an electro-hydraulic servo made by Raytheon
for an IBM RADAR in the B-52.

Any idea what RADAR it might have been for?

Best,

-John

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> I had some 1500 or so hours in B-52s.  As an EWO,
> I sat at the left side of the upper deck.  Racks
> of equipment were to my left, but just air to my
> right.  I suspect that loss of hearing in my right
> ear is primarily due to what I perceive was lower
> noise from engines on my left side from physical
> attenuation offered by the electronic stuff.
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>> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 11:02:48 -0500
>> From: scr287 at att.net
>> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Basic Question on Use of Command Sets
>>
>> One of the owners of the company I used to work for
>> was a B-25 pilot in the Pacific. He was deaf in his
>> left ear, because of that. The prop was very near
>> to the cockpit, and due to the heat, they flew with
>> everything open most of the time.
>>
>> (I wonder, though, how much sound insulating
>> properties plexiglass would have had, probably not
>> much).
>>
>> He said that most B-25 pilots were deaf in their
>> left ear, copilots went deaf in the right ear.
>>
>> Jack Antonio WA7DIA/4
>>
>>
>> On 1/8/2011 9:32 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>> > On 7 Jan 2011 at 17:49, Bob Macklin wrote:
>> >
>> >> Do you want to know the nosiest place in a bomber? It's the open
>> waist
>> >> gun ports! Especially in a B-25. You are looking right at the exhaust
>> >> stacks!
>> > My understanding is that the B-25 was the loudest twin-piston-engined
>> > bomber ever used by the U.S. military...
>> >
>> > Then...there was the "Thunder-shreik"...
>> >
>> > Ken W7EKB
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