[Milsurplus] Last flight of the LBG

[Unserviceable but Repairable]

To: kk5f at earthlink.net
Cc: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Last flight of the LBG

Mike u sed

> had SCR-269 ADF

They'd never been lost with this

MUST have had SCR-263 DF that gave non-unique loop readings (no sense
antenna PLUS in-radio null combinatorial ckt.s)
 
Have question out to listmember that reads:

} 
} Were you taught this.  If you have a dual-read loop DF as in MN26,
} then executing a rt. turn fm dead-on heading shows that, after a few
} miles, if loop precesses left, CCW as seen from above, you were 
} heading "to."
} 
} Think this was taught @ air-nav school.  Easy to work on paper or head if 
} you're a spatial recognition type.  But most aren't.  It's been written 
} over & over that LBG's nav desk was covered w. comics.  So air-nav
} lad, a pilot wash-out, wasn't.
} 
} Someone wrote a bunch of DF trade terms "axolotl 9 turn confirm beetle
} vector" or something that made no sense... indicating writer wasn't
} a "spatial recognition" sort & had to resort to jargon.
} 

SCR-269 ADF (not DF) was automated DZ.  A &^%$ing miracle at it's 
introduction

AND Mike.  Never heard the story of APS-13 voting fuzes on the
"Hiro/Naga deliveries."  GREAT info


  Marty