[Boatanchors] BA spotting

[w4okw]

This past weekend during a visit to Tucson, I made the requisite visit to 
the Pima Air Museum (I am a pilot, after all!).

Most have heard that JFK had a Hallicrafters SX-62 installed in his 
compartment on the Columbine, a VC-118 a.k.a. DC-6, but did you know there 
is another BA visible?

A bit forward of the presidential compartment is the press compartment 
complete with an S-20R mounted over a teletype machine, ostensibly to copy 
press teletype while hammering through the sky!  At least that is the story 
from the docents.

Of course the forward avionics bay just inside the forward entrance is full 
of typical aircraft radios.  I didn't get to spend much time gawking or I 
would have held up the crowd, but it looks like a couple of 618Ts or 618Ss 
in there along with some VHF and Nav stuff.

I wonder if all the other old flying machinery still has lots of boatanchors 
inside?  Would be fun to find out.

73 de Tom/W4OKW