[ARC5] R4D ART-13

[D. Platt]

In the summer of 1958, as a CAP cadet and during our Summer Encampment 
that year, I had the opportunity to operate an ARC-8 set-up in a USAF 
C-47 going from ADW out to Wright-Patt to visit the museum, there.  As I 
recall, we had it going on 40 meter phone.  This aircraft had the 
weighted trailing wire antenna installed and near Wright-Patt the crew 
chief tried unsuccessfully to reel in the antenna, so they had to land 
with it still deployed.  I recall seeing it sort of coiled up around the 
deployment tube on the bottom of the fuselage as we were loading up to 
go back to Maryland.  I had just gotten my General ticket so it was a 
very neat experience.  Later, during the encampment, a couple of us hams 
that were doing a famiz with the avionincs shop and got to stop by two 
C-47s being strippped, it appeared.  We were allowed to remove all the 
crystals from the ARC-49s VHF sets and get a few T-17 mics and HS-33 
headsets.   The BC-348s and ART-13s were there but no chance to remove 
them...hi!   In 1975, I was assigned to a wx station on Swan Island in 
the western Caribbean.  The US Government bi-weekly chartered this DC-3 
from Cayman Airlines to get people and supplies back and forth from our 
island to Cayman (and thence to Miami via jet).  The DC-3 (actually a 
C-53*) still had the little radio shack compartment but it was used to 
store some spare parts for the aircraft.

Jeep - K3HVG

The C-53 is a C-47/DC-3 with the standard airline door instead of the 
split cargo doors.