[Milsurplus] Re: (Mercury and Gemini)

David Stinson arc5 at ix.netcom.com
Mon Sep 11 20:46:53 EDT 2006


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jjhaggerty01 at excite.com>
Subject: [Milsurplus] "Re: Contents of Milsurplus digest..." (Mercury
andGemini)


>
> A question about Mercury and Gemini Space Capsules
> and their Communications Packages. I recently watched Tom Wolfe's
> "The Right Stuff. In it you can see what looks to be an AN/GRC-19?
> in the scene about Yager's cracking the speed of sound in the X-1 test
plane. ....

Can't resist putting in a "plug:"  The X-1 was outfitted
with VHF AN/ARC-5  R-28 / T-23 :).




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