[Milsurplus] Radio-less trainers

[Cletus W Whitaker]

de  WB2CPN  South Central Pennsylvania   2002.07.08

Your're right, Dan, about the time of the conversion to the T-38.
What was the single-engine recip trainer that came between the
T-6 and the T-38? Was it a T-28?  Whatever, the one I sat in sometimes
at Dover in 1959 had a little VHF radio by the pilot's left knee.  The
radio was in two square boxes; a four-channel xtal controlled transmitter,
and a tunable receiver.  The T-38 was full-panel modern airplane, and grew
into the F-5 "Skoshi Tiger".  Also, we used 6440 KHz for towers.  The 
frequency 4495 KHz was for airways.  (Good ol' 4495 is still with us
in the form of the USAF MARS frequency 4395.5 upper sideband.) The ARC-3
was a unique radio.  It automatically tuned the transmitter and the 
receiver to the operating frequencies once a small thumb-wheel was used
to delimit the tuning range.  By automatic, I mean they measured the
transmitter plate current and the receive "S" meter, and adjusted them
as if a real human was doing it, (something which the 522 did require).
             73  Clete