Lady Be Good ([Milsurplus] CRV-46123...what it is?...

Fri, 23 May 2003 17:33:42 -0400

Hue and all

QDL: Do you intend to ask me for a series of bearings (INT)
           I intend to ask you for a series of bearings.

QDM: Will you indicate the MAGNETIC heading for you to steer towards you 
(or...) with no wint               (INT)
             The MAGNETIC heading for you to steer to reach me (or..) 
with no wind was ... degrees
              (at... hours)

QDP      Will you accept control (or responsibility of (for) now )or at 
... hours) (INT)
                I will accept control (or responsibility of (for)... now 
(or at--- hours)

QDR         What is my MAGNETIC bearing from you or from ....) (INT)
                    Your MAGNETIC bearing from me (or from...) was.. 
degrees(at-- hours)

 From ACP 131 (E) March 1997

73 de Greg Moore

Hue Miller wrote:

>You must be thinking of some other plane, because there
>was no way the LBG was flying anywhere. The back was
>broken when it slid in.  
>The books i read, none really describe the radios status,
>very unfortunately, except that the VHF ( what set? ) 
>was pulled and installed in another Army plane, and worked.
>The book says something about some of the radios being
>smashed, doesn't it, where the fuselage cracked and compressed?
>But, i am thinking, some of the HF gear still had to be  workable.
>
>Also, altho the navigator or radio operator could have been 
>more cautious, you would think maybe Benghazi airfield 
>would have DF capability and could tell the plane if it was coming
>or going. I wonder if this was understood to be available to crews,
>if they asked for a position. ( There was some Q signal for this,
>wasn't there? but i cannot recall it.)
>Hue Miller
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