[Boatanchors] BA spotting

[eldim at att.net]

Hello Tom,
Don't tell me that you didn't have a camera with you on this memorable excursion.
Thanks for the informative update.  Wish we could have been there also.
73,
Glen Galati, KA7BOJ
Tacoma, WA
eldim at worldnet.att.net

-------------- Original message from "w4okw" <w4okw at gmpexpress.net>: -------------- 


> 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 
> 
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