[Milsurplus] APG-5 - bring it back alive?
Unserviceable but Repairable
cosmoline at aa4rm.ba-watch.org
Thu Apr 26 09:02:52 EDT 2007
This is the 2.5ghz radar for bombing-thru-overcast (BTO - Bachman Turner Over-
drive).
Have a complete RT drum. But no antenna, pulser, display, docs.
But do have a never-complete spares can. First such example I've seen.
Anyway, since in "oven band" could certainly run it in local B-17.
"Certainly" in italics.
Any help out there? Please
tnx
Marty
...think I've been told one BTO B-17/B-24 per squadron. Ref. is ex-PFC
Bill Johnson, age 82, who was a radio op & wasn't allowed to watch
radar op in pos'n across aisle. Bill hated that.
Bill was same man I'd mentioned who "bombed" Holland w. food after
armistice
Antenna was in fiberglass radome that substituted for chin turret
Any more APG-5 data, lore, oral tradition out there?
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