[ARC5] Very Scarce Piece BC-611 BC-721

[J. Forster]

Maybe the gliders were communicating with Rebecca-Eureka teams that had
dropped by parachute earlier?

I would thing the gliders were released some miles from the LZs.

-John

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> On 5/28/2013 1:22 PM, D. Platt wrote:
>> Looking at the glider display and glider tow rigging at the USAF Air
>> Mobility Museum at Dover AFB, it appeared to me that there were "wires"
>> included in the tow harness going back into the glider cockpit area. The
>> mock-up at the museum included an HS-23/33 headset and microphone,
>> although no radio gear, except for the BC-611.  Could it be that the
>> glider communicated with the host C-47 via wire?  I can't imagine the
>> poor glider pilot would be totally out of the loop with the tow plane.
>
>
> There was a system known as the AN/AIA-1 which was from what I
> have been able to determine, was a headset/mic extension from
> the tow plane intercom system.
>
> How this was used with, or replaced, the glider borne handie talkie
> is something that I also would like to know.
>
> Jack Antonio WA7DIA/4
>
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