[Milsurplus] SIGNAL CORPS INDICATOR UNIT I-152-AM

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

I'm not absolutely sure, but I believe the
T-29D was made from Convair 340.  That
MAY have also been true for the T-29C,
which is what most of ours were in nav
school.  The T-29D was the trainer for
Radar Bombardier training and used a
radar system that was either the same
as that in B-47 and early B-52 models
or adapted from that system.

After nav school, I went to Electronic
Warfare Officer school and our "trainers"
were converted C-54s, some of which
had flown the Berlin airlift and still had
minute amounts of coal dust in the seams.

73 - Mac, K2GKK/5
Oklahoma City, OK
USAF, 1961-1981



> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:52:41 -1000
> From: wh7hg.hi at gmail.com
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] SIGNAL CORPS INDICATOR UNIT I-152-AM
>
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 4:56 PM, D C *Mac* Macdonald  wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure, but I think the SCR-718 was the radio altimeter in the T-29s I flew in at
>> Navigator School out of Harlingen AFB, TX back in 1961-1962.
>
> Could be. I found a documentation trail to 1957 with a cancellation
> in 1963. OF course, phase out wouldn't have been instantaneous.
>
> Hmmm ... T-29. Convair 240? Sounds right, or at least that series of
> aircraft.
>
>> We used it for "Pressure Pattern Navigation" when over the Gulf of Mexico on training
>> missions.
>
> The closest I ever got to that was a brief introduction to the theory
> in passing. I'd forgotten until you mentioned it.
>
> BEst regards,
>
> Michael, WH7HG