[ARC5] Guided Bomb Equipment

[Michael A. Bittner]

I have three versions of the ARW-26 including the BC-464 Army version.  I believe they were used in propeller driven target drones for the ground-to-air gunnery practice that air gunners got before starting actual air-to-air combat gunnery training.  In a magazine I have somewhere, there is a picture of Norma Jean Baker, before she became Marilyn Monroe working on the assembly line for these target drones.  Mike, W6MAB
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robert Eleazer 
  To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 4:43 PM
  Subject: [ARC5] Guided Bomb Equipment


  Fascinating info, Mike!

  I have the original manual to the ARW-26, a remote control receiver.  A friend of mine got ahold of one of those things a while back.  Anyone know what aircraft it was used in?

  As for the remote controlled B-17's and B-24's, which both the USAAF and USN tried using operationally in Europe, the definitive work as far as I know is "Aphrodite: Desperate Mission."

  Wayne
  WB5WSV
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