[ARC5] Where Does Air Track Fit?

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Wayne,

I don't appear to have ever had any of the hardware but I do have a reprint 
of the ZA manual available.

Robert Downs - Houston
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In a message dated 04/27/2014 09:17:23 AM Central Daylight Time, 
releazer at earthlink.net writes: 
> The SCR-183 and RU/GF discussions leads me to ask where the Air Track 
> Manufacturing Company of College Park, MD fits in all of this.
> 
> I have a piece of equipment, Glide Path Receiver, Type CDE-46120, part of 
> Aircraft Radio Instrument Landing Equipment Model ZA, the other components 
> of which are listed on a separate nameplate.  This set was made by Air 
> Track for the Bureau of Ships!  Yes! Ships!  Contract date is 15 March 1940.  
> In addition to the nameplate, it is stamped "PBY-5A" in yellow paint on the 
> case.
> 
> Anyone have any info on this set?  Of course College Park is where James 
> H. Doolittle made the first blind instrument landing, so instrument landing 
> equipment made there is especially interesting.  (However I think the first 
> blind drunk landing probably was made during WWI.) 
> 
> And does anyone have any CB conversion info for the set?
> 
> Wayne