FW: [Milsurplus] Cutaway PBY

[jay.coward at avagotech.com]

Interesting.I did not know that there were earlier stand alone RU's.It seems odd,but maybe not,that all the gear looks to be mid to late '30's vintage yet the "cutaway" article says it's a PBY-5 and the accident that grounded the aircraft was in 1944.One possibility is that all the original gear was removed and sets from the training center,which may have been early or pre- war vintage, then installed.
 Jay
 PS anyone headed to Florida to take a closer look?

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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Cutaway PBY

Well, I couldn't put my finger on all the differences either without 
reference to such manuals as I have. But when I first looked at the photos, something 
just didn't look "right".

I was assuming that the RU's were either 18's or 19's because as someone 
pointed out to me earlier this week, they each have a different junction box from 
the one supplied with GF/RU sets. It has provision for two receivers and no 
transmitter. However, I just went digging through the standalone RU manuals that 
I have. The earliest is on the RU-5, and it and the RU-11 have the same dual 
receiver junction box as the RU-19. So probably the earlier models did as 
well. So no clues there as to which model of RU is currently installed.