[ARC5] NASM B-26 Flak Bait Restoration - Radio Op Position Status

[Tim]

Hi Dennis - this is all very interesting...(I have no opinion on what was
used/not used)  The one thing that I think is telling is weight.  If the
crew was not going to use Equipment "X" then why would they even carry it
aboard?  Weight means drag which cuts speed and range - very dear to
aircrews....
We even stopped painting aircraft at some point to cut the weight...

(Fun fact:  I was at an airshow in Livermore a long time ago.  They had a
flyby of a C-5 Galaxy being escorted by a P-51.  The announcer stated that
the *paint* on the C-5 weighed more than the entire Mustang...)

Tim
N6CC

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Dennis DuVall <duvallddennis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Talked to a WW2 vet a while back who was the radio operator in a B-25 in
> Europe.  .  He said he couldn’t remember ever using the BC-375/BC-348, only
> the command sets.
>
> Dennis D.  W7QHO
> Glendale, CA
>
> > On Jun 3, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > The A-26 Invader is one of the few multi-engine USAAF aircraft that had
> no liaison set...others include the P-38 and the P-61.
>
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