[ARC5] SCR-718 in a KC-135

[Tom Clarke]

On 8/14/2012 5:57 PM, Taigh Ramey wrote:
> Speaking of KC-135's... I was on a crew to fly the B-29 Hawg Wild from
> Tucson to the Imperial War Museum in Duxford England in 1980. We stopped for
> a week at Loring AFB in Maine for repairs in preparation for the trip across
> the Atlantic.
>
> We had some nice base tours while we were there and a B-52 navigator named
> Jake Huffman had taken us in a B-52 going through overhaul and then we got
> to go inside a KC-135. I was astonished to see the indicator for the SCR-718
> radio altimeter mounted on the left side of the Navs panel. It was complete
> with DAY-44 on the data plate. What a surprise to see a WWII radio installed
> in a current Air Force aircraft, well current for 1980 anyway.
>
>
> Taigh
>
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The "Green Worm".  Heck!  We had them in our old Navy C-130Fs up until 
the mid 80s also. Some of them even worked!

73 Tom/W4OKW