[Milsurplus] 1950's Navy airborne HF question
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wa5cab at cs.com
Thu Jan 14 10:31:02 EST 2010
Yep. My first big radio and Teletype technical manual haul came out of a
Field Day (cleanup) for an inspection.
In a message dated 1/14/2010 7:21:01 AM Central Standard Time,
aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org writes:
> >If they put MHF/VHF AN/ARC-5 in an aircraft in 1945,
> >and they were still flying that aircraft in 1955,
> >I'd bet even money it would still have that AN/ARC-5 in it,
> >especially if it was a training or utility aircraft.
>
> I wouldn't take that bet, since in general I completely agree with
> you...*except* for the carrier based aircraft, which had more scrutiny
> than the ash and trash haulers elsewhere around the Navy world. There
> was little money for acquisition of new aircraft avionics until the
> Korean conflict, but the best they had was put into the carrier
> inventory - after all, it was their pride and joy. There was also
> considerably less room on a carrier to store oddball equipment, so the
> freedom of keeping unneeded equipment around was reduced considerably.
> Frequent inventories prevented pack rats from saving stuff that "might
> come in handy" someday...Mike and Robert can probably attest to that,
> though there are always ways of hiding a few gems for possible later use.
Robert Downs - Houston
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