I recall many years ago living in Washington state, the "world's largest cargo plane" was at ( maybe ) Paine Field near Everett WA. The Russian aircrew had a souvenir business set up under the shade of the huge wings, selling pins and medals and such to the americano tourists at the event.
Hue Miller


>Once when working for SpaceLabs, I went to Hillsboro OR and on break paid a visit to the airport where there was a MIG fighter on the tarmac and a HUGE transport plane with equally huge landing gear, something like six or eight wheels per side on a common axle which rotated and folded into a bay on each side of the fuselage that was airstreamed along the entire length of the plane.  Looking up under the wing of the MIG I saw an open panel and some electronics modules with miniature tubes plugged in and not sure even with wire retainers.  For cable ties there were shoelace sized leather strips instead of that gut that we and the Germans used…… simple, effective, rustic.

>Dale

 

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tim
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2024 4:41 PM
To: Clare Owens <[email protected]>
Cc: Hubert Miller <[email protected]>; [email protected]; ARC-5 List <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ARC5] German Avionics Video

 

It's true... 

One "Russian" design philosophy that I often resonate with is this:  "Make it simple, rugged and functional - and repairable by any peasant with a hammer."  I can relate to that part!

Tim

N6CC

 

On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM Clare Owens <[email protected]> wrote:

A couple of comments/

 

First, we had some extremely complex electromechanical devices in wide use.  The Norden bomb sight comes to mind.

 

Second, for quite a long time the life expectancy of any war plane in WW II was quite short, so the complex equipment did not have to last very long.

 

Clare. N2RJB

 

On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 7:13 PM Tim <[email protected]> wrote:

As Stalin supposedly said "Quantity has a quality all its own."

 

The Germans were making a few Mercedes Benz's, we were making lots of Chevy's ...

 

Tim

N6CC

 

On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 3:51 PM Hubert Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

 

I felt initially that "poor us", so stuck with conventional 1930s tech, in second place. But then i thought about the ART-13 10 channel Autotune ( automatic retuning ) aircraft transmitter ( dating to 1939 ), the BC-348 aircraft receiver, the BC-1000 FM backpack radio, microwave radar, High Frequency direction finding with CRT display, radar jamming equipment, proximity fuse anti aircraft shells, and so on, PLUS early models of computer to decipher German codes. German workmanship is impressive,but...at some point you have to do a cost - benefit analysis and realize a whole lot of wonderfully mechanically engineered stuff is bound to have a rather short service life...

 

 

Sent from my Galaxy

 

 

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