[Milsurplus] 1950's Navy airborne HF question

wa5cab at cs.com 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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