[Milsurplus] Trailing Wire Antenna Query

[Taigh Ramey]

Our 1945 Lockheed PV-2D Harpoon used a Navy MT-5 manual reel and I believe that most pure navy aircraft did too.

Here is a good shot of one in what I believe is a Buccaneer 

http://aussiemodeller.com.au/Images/History/Lang_Vengeance/109.-Cockpit-LH-Rear_V.jpg

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On Apr 14, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Jack wrote:
> 
>> It appears the common US Army trailing wire
>> antenna system consisted of the BC-461 control
>> box and RL-42 reel. Plus associated bits and pieces.
>> 
>> Question is, was there a Navy equivalent?
>> 
>> I had the chance to explore the inside of a
>> P2V Neptune before it was converted to a
>> fire bomber, and it had the BC-461.
>> 
>> Did the Navy just simply the use the Army
>> system?
> 
> Every picture I've ever seen of a USN installation with a trailing
> wire antenna used the BC-461/RL-42 system.  It's hard to imagine
> anything else that would have worked better, so it would make sense
> if no USN-specific system was developed.
> 
> I don't know what the USN used pre-WWII on those patrol craft with
> GO-* and similar liaison transmitters.
> 
> Mike / KK5F
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