[Milsurplus] Naval Aviation Navigation

[Mike Hanz]

The best rundown I'm aware of is in the NRL book on the history of the 
lab, and since since they developed the system, it probably provides a 
reasonable if abbreviated perspective.  No system designation is 
mentioned - just the YE/YG/ZB models comprising an "Aircraft to Carrier 
Homing System".  The summary also omits any of the other receivers to go 
with the ZB/ARR-1 other than the RU, but that's the Navy.  :-)    
Evidently Adm King made the pivotal recommendation to deploy the system, 
in a letter dated August 1938.  Reportedly it was used until 1960, when 
TACAN was fielded.

73,
Mike

Mike Morrow wrote:

>Marty wrote of the ZB/YE-YG system:
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>>I'm in awe of the elegant simplicity and code-crack resistancee.
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>I too am constantly impressed with what almost 70 year old technology and skillful designers and users could do.
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>I wish there were a good source of info on the history of development and deployment of the ZB/YE-YG system, and I wish there were some appropriate name to call that system (like TACAN or VOR or RADAR or LORAN or ILS, etc.)  But there seems to be none, except the "ZB/YE or ZB/YG homing system."
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>Mike / KK5F  
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