[Milsurplus] Radio Operators

[Mike Morrow]

Mac wrote:

>The primary usage for the T-29 was for training of
>Air Force Navigators.

The one I flew on had all the nav training gear removed and had been turned into an equivalent of the C-131.  It was used as the base commander's utility aircraft at Blytheville AFB.  I flew as a passenger in it from Blytheville (AR) AFB to Wright-Patterson in Dayton, OH, and back.

All through the trip I was tempted to ask if it would be OK to fire up the BC-348, but I decided not.  Anyway, I didn't have phones or a tie-into the interphone system.  But I clearly remember being very surprised to see the AN/ARC-8 gear still flying with the USAF that July in 1970.

73,
Mike / KK5F