[ARC5] Oddball RAX Receiver

[Christopher Bowne]

Well that's weird, the pictures say PB5Y Tradewind..which is a four engine plane, completely different from the  two engine PB5Y Catalina, pictures of which are all over the Internet. I'm confused...

BTW, a close look at that ART-13 in the Flickr pictures makes me think that its a wooden mockup set.




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 From: Christopher Bowne <aj1g at sbcglobal.net>
To: Christopher Bowne <aj1g at sbcglobal.net>; Richard Schumann <richardschumann at comcast.net>; David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>; "milsurplus at mailman.qth.net" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; ARC-5 Yahoo <ARC-5radio at yahoogroups.com>; ARC-5 List <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 7:41 AM
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Whoa!  - check these pictures out..looks like a Catalina PB5Y  executive transport!  Don't see any RAXs but there is one picture that is clearly tagged as being of a mockup, I do see an ART-13 in one picture.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/4565015182/in/photostream/



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 From: Christopher Bowne <aj1g at sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 7:32 AM
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Actually the PB5Y was in fact the Catalina....also  called the PBY.  RAXs were certainly used in Catalinas, so using them in a training mockup makes perfect sense.  

I actually flew in one of them, although I was WAY to young to remember...my mom worked at Remmert-Werner Aircraft near St. Louis just before I was born, and she and several other employees got a chance to up in one of them that RW converted to an executive transport back in 1952.  RW converted many surplus warbird transports for civilian use back then, I was told they were doing one for TV personality (and ham operator) Arthur Godfrey.  I am not sure if the 

PBY I flew in was his, have never seen any info re him having a PBY, perhaps he ad a DC-3.



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 From: Christopher Bowne <aj1g at sbcglobal.net>
To: Richard Schumann <richardschumann at comcast.net>; David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>; "milsurplus at mailman.qth.net" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; ARC-5 Yahoo <ARC-5radio at yahoogroups.com>; ARC-5 List <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 7:20 AM
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Looks to me like "MODIFIED FOR OPERATIONAL FLIGHT TRAINER PB5Y-2 DO NOT INSTALL IN AIRCRAFT"

Perhaps it was being used in a flight simulator mockup, I believe the PB5Y was the "Privateer" long range maritime patrol version of the B-24 Liberator bomber.




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From: Richard Schumann <richardschumann at comcast.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Oddball RAX Receiver


Flight Training Duty?

beats me....

Richard kn7sfz


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  From: David Stinson 
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  Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:17 PM
  Subject: [ARC5] Oddball RAX Receiver


  Take a look at the RAX receiver at:

  http://www.ebay.com/itm/161095441386

  There's a red stamping under the nomenclature plate.
  I can make
 out:

       MODIFIED FOR OPERATIONAL
           FLIGHT ( sumthin' sumthin' sumthin)
            DO NOT INSTALL 
              IN AIRCRAFT

   Can someone with a Hi-Def display make out
   the words after "FLIGHT" ?


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