[Milsurplus] LM

[Hue Miller]

I wish I had documented this better, but many years ago an ex-Navy
flier told me about using an LM in a patrol PBY to contact their airfield,
just to see if it could be done. Airfield was in Florida. He also had 
comments
on the search for, was it, Squadron 9, lost in the "triangle".  His crew
declined to fly search in a PBY that they judged unsafe. It later exploded
in flight, with another crew aboard.

"Somewhere" I have a 'WorldRadio' magazine article which recounts
the story of a lost USAAF cargo plane over Alaska, transmitter out,
radioman uses BC-221 to contact airfield. I kind of suspect that one is
fiction.

I think the skill factor in reading the vernier dial makes for a swell
'user experience'.  -Hue