[Milsurplus] T-17 history ?

[Marty Reynolds]

> In the Squadron- Signals publication on the P-36 "Peashooter" Army Air
> Corps Pursuit aircraft there is a picture that shows a T-17 microphone
> bungee corded across the front of the cocpit.I guess easy to get to
> that way.Pilot would probably have to shout into it as the wind,prop
> blast and engine noise must have been pretty loud.So when did the P-36
> get radios?
>

I had a frazzled T-17 years ago with a very large mic element.  Bought it
in a basket of debris, put it on table @ Atlanta hamfest & it was gone
in minutes.  Bet KK5F got it.  Have regretted selling it forever.

>   I flew in a WACO biplane,similar to the Stearman PT-17, with a girl
> friend a long time ago for a sunset flight around Martha's Vineyard.I
> tried to communicate by voice directly into her ear various sights and
> she couldn't hear a word I said.We were both strapped into the forward
> cockpit with snoopy helmets on.But you could hear the singing in the
> wires and the drum of the fabric.

I was pre-empted outa a flight with a banner tow fella as a kid

So roll clock fwd 30 yr.s & what turns up in key west but an operator
giving rides & he had a half-hour cancellation.  Enter kids who wailed
@ thot of being left on ground.  So they both went.  Pre-empted
again.  But older one had video camera so it's recorded.  She spent
a lot of time telling bro how to ride in a biplane

Younger one now a Afghanistan C-130 driver.

  Marty