[Milsurplus] Jurrassic air-nav / was TCS in PT
Unserviceable but Repairable
cosmoline at ba-watch.org
Fri Mar 11 06:24:06 EST 2005
Firstus, the Smit's Enoler Gay has it right - TNX MIKE HANZ.
'Way to go, but it don't haul peeps for support.
Neat point is it's air-nav '733 & ARN-5 is still certifiable for
category-1 landings by jfor's glorified drivers.
Amazing that system's persisted for a half century. And 'system' is
thus. Forgive me if a there's a bad detail or nit - like using a
metric screw in a C47 nacelle.
'733 runs ~108mc & shows 'left' for 110 hz tone thru one of it's
2 band-pass-filters. Shows right for 150hz, etc. This is how
localizer's work - look out window next time u ride the plane
& smell the yagis.
ARN-5 works like '733 but @ 335 mcs & is for up-down glide slope.
ARN-5 all 28V stuff so u just shoot the juice to it bruce (n. norvous)
& it shud go (not so dyno-pwr '733 / be careful) If you're lucky
& have the battery-pwr TS313 w. acorn osc., u can see if all's well
OR u can take a URM-26 & external audio & do same test.
Interesting fable about overweight 733. Designed by British &
bilt xtra tuff to stand the constant foggy-landing crashes.
75mc marker beacon. Once, before glide-slope, there were 3 markers,
now just 2. Cud do fair substitute for glide slope but u had to
be better than good.
BC400 was std glide-slope TX & used a trip-815 deck called a TU-75.
Get where the 75 comes fm? I had one as a kid & only recently
found this factoid.
AZON & CRN things used same 75mc area & one TX, the BC-1158 used a TU-75.
So there was VERY SMART cross-polination by our electronic
ancesstors.
But you knew that.
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