[ARC5] Basic Question on Use of Command Sets

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

No idea, John.  I was aircrew, not in maintenance.
I doubt that the radar in our F-models was made by
IBM, though.  My B-52 "career" ended in 1966.
 

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* 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 *
* (Since 30 Nov 53) *
* Oklahoma City, OK *
* USAF, Ret (61-81) *
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> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 09:58:23 -0800
> From: jfor at quik.com
> To: k2gkk at hotmail.com
> CC: scr287 at att.net; arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Basic Question on Use of Command Sets
>
> 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
>
> ==============
>
>
>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > * * * * * * * * * * *
> > * 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 *
> > * (Since 30 Nov 53) *
> > * Oklahoma City, OK *
> > * USAF, Ret (61-81) *
> > * * * * * * * * * * *
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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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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