[Milsurplus] Re: Milsurplus digest, Vol 1 #694 - 12 msgs

[Hue Miller]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Beech" <nj7p@nj7p.org>
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Re: Milsurplus digest, Vol 1 #694 - 12 msgs


> Al,
> 
> Boy, you are absolutely right.  There were not the proliferation of 
> birds that are there now.  If there were any of the UHF low orbiters, 
> they were the first of their kind.  

Hmmm....i was around in the 1950s. I do not recall ANY satellites,
do you? Remember Sputnik, what a great big enormous deal that
was, to have a short-lived satellite that sent beep-beep-beep on
20 Mcs. ?

> But an RS-6 strapped to your emergency vest would not do you much good 
> unless you had a battery strapped there, with it.  My RS-6 gets to be a 
> bit heavy for that operation.  And the ejection seat makes a separate 
> hard landing - not good for the radios if they could be found. 
> 73,
> Bill, NJ7P

Did the B-47 have an ejection seat?
The RS-6 didn't go out on the ejection seat anyway.

>And the 
> routes they had in and out - partially, were over some very sparsely 
> populated country.

That was kinda the idea. The idea of Operation Amargeddon use
of the RS-6 was not to radio back, "We're on our way out, see you
in a while", but to radio, "Found a field suitable for rescue craft,
details follow...."

What about my suggestion for its use (also) for the stay-behind
agents in Europe? Opinions on that?
Hue Miller