[Boatanchors] KWM 1 History Question

[rbethman]

This is something I can find believable.  It would all have to be 
preset, and simply selecting HF or VHF by the pilot.

Those pilots had issues with the heating wires of the suit's helmet 
giving them grief when trying to perform celestial nav fixes.

I knew they wouldn't be able to "see" the radio behind their head, nor 
do anything with it.

Now I'll crawl back into the shadows.

Bob - N0DGN

On 4/12/2010 8:45 PM, ROLYNN PRECHTL K7DFW wrote:
> U-2s of the 4080th SRW at Davis Monthan AFB had KWM-1s which were mounted
> behind the pilot. They had standard, not reversed nomenclature. Missing were
> the PTO and it's knob as well as some other parts. Fixed freqs were the
> order. With the addition of approx two or three dozen parts, passive
> components and mechanical things, they could be rebuilt back into an amateur
> KWM-1.
>
> K7DFW
> USAF 1962-1966