[ARC5] B-29 Radio Operator's Station on August 28, 1943
Gene Smar
ersmar at verizon.net
Sun Jun 12 18:41:58 EDT 2022
And not a computer monitor in sight. Ah, the good ole days.
73 deGene Smar AD3F
Sent from my Radio Shack TRS-80 model 100 laptop
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 5:45 PM, David Stinson<arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
On 6/12/2022 2:10 PM, Brian McQueen wrote:
> You sure that’s not a B-17? B-29’s used the ART-13 xmitter, not a BC-375...
>
> Brian. WJ0P
Early B-29s, like many used to fly "the Hump"
over the mountains to China, used SCR-287. Conversion
to AN/ARC-8 (ART-13) was a late-war thing.
Moreover, the Radio Op position is certainly B-29.
B-17, -24, -25, -26 etc. were very different.
73 Dave S.
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