[ARC5] ARC-5 VHF in USAF Aircraft

[Bob Macklin]

This is what the N Koreans were doing. It was an old twin engine airplane 
that made a pass over the base (K-2 AFB) at sundown with it's props out of 
sync and they would toss out a handgrenade.

Our wing CO got tired of this BS but Bed Check Charlie was to slow for a 
F-84 to make a good pass so he had a Browning .30cal installed in one of the 
T-6s and he did score a Bed Check Charlie.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
To: "Michael A. Bittner" <mmab at cox.net>
Cc: <Arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC-5 VHF in USAF Aircraft


> On 29 Mar 2013 at 8:52, Michael A. Bittner wrote:
>
>> Whatsa Bed Check Charlie?
>
> That term was first used during WWI, I believe. It described the nightly 
> visits
> by an enemy aircraft.
>
> The Japanese did this regularly in the Pacific at some U.S. airfields. 
> Since
> the Japanese often used twin-engined bombers with un-synchronized
> engines, they were also called "Washing Machine Charlie".
>
> Ken W7EKB
>
>
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