[ARC5] More ZB

[Mike Hanz]

You and Michael Tauson are the winners, Wayne - I read the pub more 
carefully and found this tiny paragraph 2. h (12) on page 25.

"NAVIGATION ANTENNA (See figure 30)  The control for extending and 
retracting this antenna is located on the right side of the cockpit, 
just below the cabin track.  The antenna is extended by unlatching, 
pulling the handle aft, and latching.  The antenna should be extended 
only when actually being used, since it causes a certain definite, 
though small, loss in maximum speed (one mph)."

I seem to recall the the F4U was the speed holder for a while, so they 
were obviously obsessed with drag...but that little ARR-2 antenna?  
Sheesh.  They seem to have dropped the complexity in later versions of 
the F4U, so obviously it was a performance/weight tradeoff decision.

73,
Mike

On 7/10/2011 4:09 PM, Robert Eleazer wrote:
> I wonder if it could be a retractable antenna of some kind?  How it 
> would work is far from obvious.  It is true that with the F4U gave 
> much more attention to streamlining than they did with the F6F.