[ARC5] Gibson Girl

[Wayne Eleazer]

I have a copy of a 1960's vintage KC-135A pilot's manual.  The Gibson Girl is featured in it.

In the movie Island in the Sky, not only is the Gibson Girl featured, but on the downed C-47 the radio operator using a BC-348 can be seen as well.

Back in the late 1970's across the street from Tinker AFB there was a surplus dealer selling Gibson Girl transmitters in those large yellow soft-sided storage containers.

I recall reading that the Gibson Girl was a copy of a WWII Luftwaffe emergency transmitter.  Anyone ever hear of that?  And I think the US models included not only 500 KHZ but an 3MHZ range HF frequency as well.

Wayne