[ARC5] BC-348

[Robert Eleazer]

I have a picture of a BC-224-A installed in a North American O-47.  The O-47 was a battlefield reconnaissance aircraft, powered bay single R-1820 engine with a crew of 2 or 3.  It was about the size of a fighter plane and looked like the SBD's ugly cousin. 

Also, I have the preliminary pilot's manual for the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver.  It says the airplane was equipped with an ART-13 transmitter.  I figured that was an error, using that size transmitter in a single engined airplane, but in fact I guess it makes some sense.  The SB2C was a "scout bomber" so it also theoretically had a role as a reconnaissance airplane and thus a need for longer range communications.  The HF receiver is not specified but it seemed to have used the C-126/ARC MHF Receiver Mixture panel.  VHF was the ARC-1.  

I guess that the Grumman TBM Avenger of that era was similarly equipped.

Wayne