[ARC5] BC-348

[Mike Morrow]

> 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 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...

In USN carrier aircraft (even single-engine) that had a gunner/radio operator position, a liaison-type transmitter installation is almost a certainty.  Before WWII and early into it, the transmitter would have likely been a GP-6 or -7 with a liaison-type RU-* receiver.  Later, the ATC/ATC-1/T-47/ART-13 fill that roll with some receiver concoction like the ARB and/or R-26 and/or R-27/ARC-5 with or without the C-131/AR six-channel remote controller.  (Until the AN/ARR-15 arrived the USN had nothing that was well-matched to the capability of the AN/ART-13.)

Mike / KK5F