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

[KG4KGL]

I thought they quit painting them because there was no Luftwaffe left to shoot them down? :D

Robert
KG4KGL


> On Jun 3, 2015, at 22:55, Tim <timsamm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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