[Milsurplus] can anyone id the radio used on this clipper?

[Mike Morrow]

Mike wrote:

>... there were well established precedents in the 
>steamship industry for handling passenger traffic, and I suspect they 
>simply adopted existing contracts and other mechanisms for the service

I suspect that by the 1930s, a Pan Am aircraft radiotelegraph station
was open to public correspondence, just as any merchant marine
radiotelegraph station was, right up to 1999.

This is a very interesting discussion.  H. C. Leuteritz is mentioned
in the Time Magazine issue of 07-14-1930 in connection with the formation
of Aeronautical Radio Incorporated:

http://www.arinc.com/downloads/time_magazine_56616.pdf

The same short article lauds the 26-year-old son of President Hoover
as the leader of the ARINC organization.

It's hard to imagine those PAA B314 China Clippers flying with 1929
vintage radio sets, when by 1937 RCA had produced the finest aircraft
receiver of the next decade (BC-224), and Bendix had produced the
remarkably advanced BC-310 RDF.  I wonder if RCA and Bendix were free
to sell commercial model equivalents to the airlines.

Mike / KK5F