[ARC5] Whidbey Island Air Museum

[hwhall at compuserve.com]

Guess I'm more lucky than I realized. At the museum I volunteer, the emphasis is on having things working. Probably a ethic from its sister warbird restoration business. Planes gotta fly. Radios gotta play (if at all possible).

WayneWB4OGM

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From: Tim <timsamm at gmail.com>
To: Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com>
Cc: arc5 at mailman.qth.net <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Mon, Dec 14, 2020 5:51 pm
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Whidbey Island Air Museum

I visited an otherwise pretty extensive military history museum awhile back; they had a very complete TCS set sitting in the corner.  I told the staffer that it wouldn't take much to make it an operating display.  He said - cool, but we would just like to have some blinking lights on the front; could you do that for us?  Ummm no thanks..I gotta go.....
TimN6CC

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 2:34 PM Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

Many years ago, I sold a couple AVR/AVT pairs to a fellow in Bellevue, WA, who wasgetting them for people who had flying WWII observation planes, the Cessna or Stinsonthings. I said this disclaimer, "I do not know if these work". His reply, "That's alright,they're going to empty them out anyway". Yes, that saved them 3 lbs. I still feel upsetin the gut when I think about that, but I was already committed. Now, I have the don'tgive a damn what you think spirit, and I'd say, "Well, this deal has just cancelled".  This iskind of the direction the Whidbey experience went. I recall also "German reenactor"type, irate, telling me, "It's my radio and I can do what I want!", in service of their play-acting, having "authentic" audio coming out from it. Oh well, that does make the yetunmolested examples more cherished today. – Hue Miller______________________________________________________________
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