[ARC5] British WWII Avionics

[Geoff]

The only photo Ive seen of a Brit B-17C had what looked like a BC-375.

After the initial disasterous experience with the B-17C did they fly the 
later models such as D and F?


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From: "Robert Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 9:48 PM
Subject: [ARC5] British WWII Avionics


>I note that all of the SCR-522 sets have both U.S. and British nametags.  I 
>wonder if any other equipment had that feature?
>
> The 522 must not have been too horrible, because it appears that the 
> receiver formed the basis for the BC-639 ground radio, which of course 
> dispensed with that bizarre crystal tuning scheme.
>
> I read that the British invented microwave airborne radar and bought it to 
> the U.S.  They thought the Americans were boastful when they described 
> their enthusiasm for the new technology and how they would use it.  But a 
> month after the British introduced the U.S. to the radar technology the 
> U.S. knew as much as the British and had designed their own version of the 
> set, with a better receiver.  A month after that the new factory to build 
> the sets was completed.  And a month after that the set was in full 
> production.  The British were astonished.  The Americans were not bragging 
> but simply stating facts.  The British quit building the sets and just 
> bought them from the U.S..  They eventually started building some of their 
> own later, just so they would not forget how.
>
> I think the same thing happened with the SCR-522.
>
> As for British bomber radios, I would guess they had no need for a 
> "command set."  The RAF heavy bombers did little daylight formation flying 
> until the latter part of 1944, when the USAAF had pretty well cleaned up 
> the Luftwaffe relative to the shorter range missions, such as to France. 
> I wonder if the B-17's, B-24's and B-25's the British operated used U.S. 
> or British radios?
>
> Wayne
>
>
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