[ARC5] ARC-5 in the X-1

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

And the designator for Orlando International remains MCO (for McCoy).
 
Our cross-country Navigator School flight went there.  We were supposed 
to cross to Kindley AF in Bermuda and back, but that got cancelled.  RATS! 
  
* * * * * * * * * * * 
* 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 * 
* (Since 30 Nov 53) * 
* Oklahoma City, OK * 
* USAF, Ret'd 61-81 * 
** FAA, Ret'd 94-10 * 
* * * * * * * * * * * 
 
 

From: releazer at earthlink.net
To: radiocompass at yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 16:59:36 -0400
Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC-5 in the X-1
CC: arc5 at mailman.qth.net








I guess we can assume that one used was the 
tower freq for Muroc.  I would guess that the XS-1 project had its own freq 
for air to air as well.
 
Another bit of trivia is the radio used as the 
ground station for the X-1 in the movie, '"The Right Stuff" I believe was 
an RT-68/GRC. 
 
The first flights of the XS-1 actually were at 
Pinecastle AAF, later known as McCoy AFB, now Orlando International 
Airport.  At that time it was a semi-closed base.  But those were all 
unpowered glide flights.
 
Wayne
WB5WSV  

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Mike 
  Everette 
  To: David Stinson ; Robert 
  Eleazer ; arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 12:14 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC-5 in the 
X-1
  

  
  This would be an interesting bit of 
  trivia -- the frequencies used especially for Chuck Yeager's record flight. 
   The information may be lost to history though.
  

  73
  

  Mike
  

  WA4DLF
  


  
  
  
  
  
  From: David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
To: Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>; arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 7:43 
  AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC-5 
  in the X-1

  
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>Subject: [ARC5] ARC-5 in the X-1>... VHF ARC-5 being used in the later X-1A, but it appears> it was used in the very first X-1 airplanes as well.Lighter system than the ARC-1 or ARC-3,more capable and more reliable than the olderARC-4 
  or SCR-522.And during design, it's easier to find three small 
  spaces than it is to find one great big space.
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