[ARC5] More USS Macon ZRS-5 Information, Including Radio Gear

[Sandy]

Thanks Mike for the info and the link to the  search for the Macon.  I'm not 
old enough to have seen them when they were flying, but all the rigid 
airships were a marvel.  A friend in the Navy was on "Blimps" but they were 
tiny compared with the "Zepp" type rigid airships.  I remember one blimp 
that moored at Callender NAS in Belle Chasse and everyone was rubbernecking 
at the base when she landed at old "Callender field" which still had the 
original runways existing when Callender turned into a joint airbase with 
Navy, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard squadrons on it at the time.

73,

Sandy W5TVW

--Original Message----- 
From: Mike Morrow
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:47 PM
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Cc: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [ARC5] More USS Macon ZRS-5 Information, Including Radio Gear

Nick cited:

> http://www.moffettfieldmuseum.org/photos/showimg.php?file=/Macon/Interior/macon_inside11.jpg

which shows another Macon radio installation.  This almost looks like a 
shipboard
radio installation, though I'm unfamiliar with the equipment shown.  The 
interior
images at this cite appear to have been made before the Macon was completed.

There's a fantastic 20 minute video at

  http://oceanslive.gso.uri.edu/past-events-video-gallery#
  then select the "Mission to find the dirigible Macon" image.

This has many minutes of actual filming of F9C Sparrowhawk launches and 
recoveries
from the Macon.  In addition, there are some radio shots at minute 13:10 of 
what I
believe is a 1934 RU-2/GP or RU-3/GP-1.  At minute 13:35 there's a better 
shot of the
radio installation in service that Nick cited above, along with the radioman 
who was
one of the two casualties of the loss of Macon in February 1935.

There's no certainty that the RU-2/GP or RU-3/GP-1 installation shown in the 
above film
was the one aboard the Macon, but it does appear from the image surroundings 
that it is
from some airship.  Perhaps the 1933 under-construction installation of what 
I theorize
was an RU-2/GM at

http://www.moffettfieldmuseum.org/photos/showimg.php?file=/Macon/Interior/macon_inside11.jpg

had been replaced by a RU-3/GP-1 by early 1935.  The Macon was, after all, a 
unique and
important ship during its short history.  It likely got the best of whatever 
was
available.

73,
Mike / KK5F
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