[ARC5] Oddball RAX Receiver

[Gary Pewitt]

It was a mockup of an electronics countermeasures aircraft interior.  
Most all of the gear was fake wooden mockups.  The later Navy version of 
the four engine aircraft has a single tail rather than the twin tails of 
the B-24 but it was mainly the same air frame.  Probably the ECM version 
never got into production.


On 8/28/2013 6:56 AM, Christopher Bowne wrote:
> 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...
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> 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
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Oddball RAX Receiver
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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.
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/4565015182/in/photostream/
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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 7:32 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.
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> 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
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> 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
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Oddball RAX Receiver
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> Looks to me like "MODIFIED FOR OPERATIONAL FLIGHT TRAINER PB5Y-2 DO NOT INSTALL IN AIRCRAFT"
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> 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>
> To: David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; ARC-5 Yahoo <ARC-5radio at yahoogroups.com>; ARC-5 List <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 11:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Oddball RAX Receiver
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> Flight Training Duty?
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> beats me....
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> Richard kn7sfz
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>    ----- Original Message -----
>    From: David Stinson
>    To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net ; ARC-5 Yahoo ; ARC-5 List
>    Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:17 PM
>    Subject: [ARC5] Oddball RAX Receiver
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>    Take a look at the RAX receiver at:
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>    http://www.ebay.com/itm/161095441386
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>    There's a red stamping under the nomenclature plate.
>    I can make
>   out:
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>         MODIFIED FOR OPERATIONAL
>             FLIGHT ( sumthin' sumthin' sumthin)
>              DO NOT INSTALL
>                IN AIRCRAFT
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>     Can someone with a Hi-Def display make out
>     the words after "FLIGHT" ?
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