[Milsurplus] Re: Milsurplus Digest, Vol 7, Issue 23

[BOEING377 at aol.com]

<<I Cannot directly document the installation of the ARR-15 in a Wartime B-29, 
but I have talked to a couple of gents at the IEEE MTTS a few years ago that 
said that the ARR-15/ART-13 combo was indeed installed on ELINT B-29's late 
in the war.>>

The only planes I have ever seen with this combo were Neptunes, P2V5 and 7. Come to think of it I have never seen an ARR 15 in any non Navy plane. Canadians used the combo in their Neptunes. California Airframe bought huge lots of Canadian Neptune spares in the 70s which included many pallets of NIB ARR 15 parts, but no NIB ARR 15 rcvrs. They had (almost for sure all gone by now) lots of VERY  beat up ART 13 xmtrs and dynamotor sets and some better looking but used ARR 15 rcvrs. The parts inventory for the ARR 15s was amazing, lots of everything including individually packaged gears, dials, knobs. Not quite enough to build a new rcvr from scratch (no NIB chassis) but almost everything else you'd need.