[CW] Flight Radio Officer Anne Morrow Lindbergh's backup radio

[David J. J. Ring, Jr.]

Flight Radio Officer Anne Morrow Lindbergh's backup radio

We don’t know if she ever needed to use it, but if her main aircraft 
radio stopped working, Anne Morrow Lindbergh had a backup.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh was the copilot and radio operator aboard a 
Lockheed Model 8 Sirius floatplane, and she and her famous husband 
Charles were making a series of overseas survey flights (the first ones 
in 1931 and a second set of flights two years later). At the behest of 
Pan American Airways, the Lindberghs were exploring possible airline 
routes from North America to Asia and Europe.

Pan American had provided radio equipment designed and built by H.C. 
Leuteritz, chief of the company’s radio division: a 15-watt telegraph 
transmitter, a dynamotor, and a receiver. The emergency radio, a Model 
TR-A transceiver (above), was stored in the airplane’s baggage 
compartment—to be brought out only in case of damage to the installed 
set or a need to abandon the downed aircraft.

The Model TR-A—a combination transmitter and receiver—is a metal box 
covered by a black wrinkle finish, its solid craftsmanship validating 
its worth as the museum piece that it is.

Before the survey flights, Anne had earned her pilot’s license and a 
commercial third-class radio license, which required her to master Morse 
code. In a 1974 book based on her diaries, she wrote: “I was amused but 
also inordinately proud to hear about the comment of a Pan American 
radio operator who, after sending me a 150-word message in code through 
heavy static, made the astonished remark: ‘My God, she got it!’ ”

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