[Milsurplus] Dayton reflections

[Jim Haynes]

On Mon, 21 May 2012, Jack Sullivan wrote:

> I've been to Dayton 3 times over the years & it is sad to have 
personally witnessed its decline. The great WW2 surplus sellers & the guys 
selling the cool Motorola programming gear are gone & the variety is just 
not there any more.

I was just reading a piece about electronic reconaissance aircraft.
Said there were a number of such aircraft in the waning days of WW-II,
and then all the equipment was pulled out and scrapped.  Then just
a few years later the Navy realized they needed that capability again.
So they sent guys in civilian clothes and carrying bags of money to
the famous Radio Row of NYC and bought everything they needed.