[Milsurplus] WW2 Navy aircraft installations

[Mike Hanz]

I put the pages in question at 
http://members.cox.net/aafradio/March_1944_Electronics.html for those 
who don't have the magazine (mine are bound, unfortunately, thus the 
center loss.)  If you have Opera you can enlarge the photo right there 
on the screen and it still has fairly good resolution.

It's curious that a Navy cargo plane would have a USAAF radio compliment 
with the BC-375, BC-348, earphones, etc., but there are several 
candidates that had dual A/N use like the R4D-1 (C-47) and others.

73,
Mike

Hue Miller wrote:

>March '44 "Electronics" magazine has some photos of Navy air radio positions, mostly already 
>frequently seen in many places, but-
>
>3) "Radio operator's position in a Naval Air Transport cargo plane. Soundproofing 
>material insulates the compartment from the roar of the twin Cyclone engines."
>( What aircraft is this? Must be a standard all-forces C-?? )
>No window visible anywhere in compartment.  BC-348 is against one wall ( judging
>from curvature of airframe skeleton )  Some kind of unit about 8 x 8 inches  mounted
>on wall above -348, has one meter, two connectors on front panel bottom 2-3 knobs
>and 1 switch. To operator's left, at 90 degrees to to BC-348 and aircraft wall, is a
>BC-348, on shelf at same level as BC-348. Op is wearing Navy white uniform and 
>wearing one of those HS-33 ( ??? ) headsets with natural leather color headbands, and 
>using a T-17. The BC-348 has something taped to the tube cover panel, reminds me of
>splotchy tube cover panels you see on some surplus BC-348. This one looks like a big
>"Band-Aid", i mean white  about 1 x 2 inches with something like tape on both sides.
>Call sign reminder???
>