[Milsurplus] More questions on AN/XXX.. more

[William Donzelli]

> BD is Board, as in BD-100 Telephone/Telegraph Switchboard,
> but not SB-6 which is a Teletype switch box.  All of the above
> use the same type jacks.   BD-92, I think, was a small 12-line
> telephone switchboard complete with cords and headset.  I used
> all of the above at one time or another in USAF Korea.

Yes, BD-1 is a switchboard for an early aircraft set.

However, BD is littered with dynamotors, the most famous being the BD-77
for the BC-191. Why not a DM- or a PE-? We will never know...

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org