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

mac w7qho at aol.com
Sat Mar 27 12:46:58 EDT 2010


ARINC still in business in Annapolis, MD.  Wonder if they have any  
historical archives.....

Dennis D. W7QHO
Glendale, CA



On Mar 27, 2010, at 8:56 AM, Mike Morrow wrote:

> 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
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