[Milsurplus] TCS-12 Radios

[William Donzelli]

> And navigation sets, how many out there(besides me) are actively
> collecting the stuff for a working RC-103?

Probably more than you realize, but maybe not as strongly as you. I think
a lot of people go for the Bendix DF stuff. Not so much the ILS equipment.
 
> In fact I would bet that a lot of
> pilots would have gladly left the radios out of their aircraft to
> carry a couple extra gallons of fuel, or a couple hundred extra rounds 
> of .50 caliber ammo.

This did indeed happen. The AN/APS-10, a small, late war GE radar, was
mostly rejected because the pilots objected to them - they wanted fuel!
Oddly, however, postwar there was a need for just such a radar, and the
AN/APS-10 was born again (one of the very few WW2 aircraft radars to be
produced after the war).

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org