[Milsurplus] Re: GP-x Transmitter, RAX Rcvr? + TU Wanted

[jcoward5452 at aol.com]

The Navy accepted it ...
Look, I don't disagree with the point you are making;just being the 
devil's advocate. In my Squadron Signals book on the P-36 Peashooter 
there is a photo showing the T-17 mic strung across the cockpit on a 
bun gee cord.That in itself was probably an ergonomic improvement.



Where were the control boxes?
Nearby

Remember, the airplane was designed first and it was up to the radio 
geeks to fit in their stuff where ever they could.Even in this age I've 
worked on stuff that went just beneath the tail of a fighter just above 
the exhaust.When the airplane was on afterburn the gadgets had to work 
at 105 deg C. Mil spec for most of this stuff is 85 deg C.What a pain 
in the a...

In the F4F the GF/RU was under the pilot inside the fuselage.His radio 
boxes were on the cockpit walls whare he could not easily see them.Most 
fighters had their boxes in similar locations so as a pilot upgraded to 
a new airplane the controls remained in similar locations.

During the war years a tremendous amount of material was produced in a 
very short time to satisfy innumerable needs.It is mind boggling in the 
least to try and comprehend the supply chain from raw materials to 
finished goods to delivery at the various fronts.

And add in the Manhattan Project.

What happened?We can hardly build cars in this country anymore.
 Arrg...Jay


-----Original Message-----
From: wdonzelli at gmail.com
To: jcoward5452 at aol.com
Cc: kongomt at gmail.com; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Re: GP-x Transmitter, RAX Rcvr? + TU Wanted

> Ok.Look at the installation in the SBD Dauntless.The radio operator
> /gunner would have a heck of a time with the radios in flight.All
> situated below his waste level.Same with the Kingfishers and 
Ducks.You
> really only got to play with the DU and the key.

Where were the control boxes?

> PS I'd like to read 11 pages on a knob!I have a hard time with the 
2nd
> paragraph of IEEE papers...

OK, RCA went overboard, perhaps, but then they were a rich company
back in the 1930s, regardless of the Depression.

Still, ergonomics is really a bunch of common sense when you get down
to the core. Look at my receiver control box example - it does not
take a rocket (control box) scientist to see the problem, and to see
the solution. Or the transmitter box example - a chickenhead would
have solved the whole problem. But no...

--
Will
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