[Milsurplus] The RIGHT Radios!

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

All,

Thanks for the inofrmation about the P-39 but no one has answered my second question...were the command sets tuned remotely by the pilot? The picture shows cables connected to the tuning capacitor. If so, the remote control cables would have to be quite long.

Thnaks,

Mike 

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From: "Michael Tauson" <kongomt at gmail.com> 

> On 1/15/07, BSugarberg wrote: > 
> > The caption at the bottom of the photo says: > > 
> > "Radio mechanic services radio equipment on a Bell P-39. Panama".> > 
> > The P-39 was a fighter. Pilot, no navigator. 
> 
> It was sort of an interesting fighter at that. Those radios were in 
> the fuselage behind the engine which, in turn, was behind the pilot. 
> Changing specs messed it up for its original design concept but the 
> Russians figured out a better way to employ it, which was ground 
> attack and tank busting with the 37mm cannon in the nose. 
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