[ARC5] T-30 Throat Mike Use

[David Rossetti]

Anyone remember the TV series "12 O'clock High"? They used throat mikes, but
at the time I didn't know what those were. Guess I figured it out, but still
wondered what they were doing to communicate with each other, what those
things on their neck were, and how they worked. Don't believe I have ever
seen one in real-life; just pictures.

Dave Rossetti
410-279-0226 (mobile)

-----Original Message-----
From: ARC5 [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Robert Eleazer
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 1:44 PM
To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [ARC5] T-30 Throat Mike Use

I'm in the process of reading a book entitled, "Flying the B-26 Marauder
Over Europe" written by a WWII B-26 navigator.  It has a lot of interesting
detail about B-26 operations and it mentions that the crew generally used
throat mikes for intercom communications - and that resulted in some amount
of garbled communications.

He also mentions that when flying from North Africa to England, ferrying
their airplanes to the base they would use, that he noted they had picked up
a headwind.  Radio silence had been ordered and they noted the lead aircraft
signaling them with a blinker light in Morse.  They finally got the radio
operator to come decipher the Morse; it turned out that the lead navigator
had noted the headwind as well and was signaling them of the fact. Although
aircrew were trained in Morse, that example shows how much they were capable
of understanding - very little.

Wayne      
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