[Milsurplus] MODEL 31 TELETYPE RESOURCE PAGE All variations of Model 31 p...

[B. Smith]

I am sure  teletype was installed , the majority of traffic that flows 
between a VIP aircraft and  airways ground comm is devoted to 
non-classified, non encrypted material, such as  golf course weather, 
changes in flight plan, golf tee times, itinerary changes, messages for 
the press, personal traffic for passengers and special guests ,  golf 
tee times for 22 people, hotel reservation changes, more golf tee 
times,  food and beverage menu changes for the next leg, pages and pages 
of hand copied material was finally  eliminated by the teletype machines 
on board, and a "hard copy" is always better. Much faster and more 
accurate than having one of the radio operators (there were several) 
copy by mill, proofing the copy and then finally releasing it to the 
addressee. With teletype you just had the ground station  send it twice 
for verification. If necessary message traffic could be coded and then 
decoded on board the aircraft, all it took was use the "secrets", no 
mechanical device was necessary.
Those that are familiar, remember  HAMM's beer H A M M and what it stood 
for when decoding of encoding.
  VIP flying is a complete pain in the arse.

BTW I would take those static displays at Wright Pat with a grain of 
salt as far as the radio equipment installed.   MATS VIP aircraft were  
not the same as the rest of the MATS fleet and each aircraft had custom 
equipment installed and often installed at the last minute for a 
particular mission and then it was removed for the next. etc.
Z


On 11/19/2013 5:02 PM, Ray Fantini wrote:
> I don't know if I am buying the idea of flying teletype in 49 or 50. Majority of all encryption hardware before 1960 was huge heavy mechanical stuff well suited to battleships but not aircraft. Pre computer or solid state hardware like  SIGABA worked equally well for messages sent by CW as by teletype and lacked the capacity for paper tape transfer so what advantage would there be?
> Ray F
>
> From: COURYHOUSE at aol.com [mailto:COURYHOUSE at aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 1:54 PM
> To: Ray Fantini; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] MODEL 31 TELETYPE RESOURCE PAGE All variations of Model 31 p...
>
> Ray --     Yes  in my  search  on the net  came  up  with stills and a  youtube walking  tour  of the plane.
> I suspect it  was stripped out. .... actually  if it  was used as a VIP transport  I  can guarantee it  was  stripped out.   ( now if only we can  find  the closet it was stashed in <grin>)
>
> Ed Sharpe  Archivist for SMECC  www.smecc.org<http://www.smecc.org>
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