[Milsurplus] [ARC5] ARC-5 Receiver Question

[J. Forster]

I'm not so sure. Crew had parachutes. Radios did not.

-John

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> I don't know of anyone who has ever found any written documentation that
> any short cuts were taken because of short expected life of the equipment
> (and
> the associated aircrew).  Apparently no one was ever stupid enough to put
> that attitude into writing.  How would you like to be in the first few
> aircraft to get unpainted radios and be told that it was because you
> weren't going
> to survive long enough for the lack of paint to matter?