[Milsurplus] B-45 radios

[Unserviceable but Repairable]

Mike et. al.

I worked for a Korea-era RB45 pilot & ham.  One Tommy Cowan who's
vanished, dang it.

Put on ur folklore shoes now.  He sed the B45 almost didn't fly.  
Getting it to rotate @ 140mph took 2 miles of runway @ sea level & 80-F.  
With JATO.

God save you if the parachute failed on landing.  Brakes were only 
good for 30mph stop.

My reason was for re-connect attempt was to see if RS-6 packages were 
stuck somewhere in the critter.  One report fm CO Springs indicates it.

One more neat  folklore story is that it was believed that B45s extinct
thru '95.  Then a IR satellite foto of a kudzu patch @ Eglin showed
two overgrown suspects in the toolies.  Investigation showed B45s.
They were trucked to Warner Robbins & sent their separate ways.

Could these be the examples at Carlsbad & Wright-Pat?  

This tale sorta like salvage yarn of Colossus of Rhodes.

Which of course was equipped with a RS-6 to keep tabs on phoenicians.

  Marty