[Milsurplus] OK true believers... YES the Teletype did fly.. Read page 162-3

[Ray Fantini]

True, but what year? The photos that were presented before showed ARC-8 type configurations that would be equipment only poorly suited to airborne teletype operations. Everyone is in agreement that by sixties with the 618T (ARC-94) and solid state TU and small teleprinters like the Mite airborne teletype was common place but still think in the late forties and early fifties it’s a stretch. 
Maybe it would have been a good system for the amount of traffic that an executive level flight required but the command and control structures we take for granted today did not exist at that time, at least not in an airborne asset.
 Closest thing would have been the starting of operation Looking Glass in February of 61 by SAC and later transferred to the 38th SRS and the 2nd and 7th ACCS. The Moscow Washington Hotline or Red Phone did not exist until 1963 and that was a land base teletype circuit. The Army was well into teletype with radio systems like the AN/GRC-26 by the fifties, the Navy was well established too, but if we had dependable airborne teletype assets why weren’t they used in the early SAC operations? Show me evidence of a teletype in any B-36, B-29, B-50 or B-47
Having been on both the Sacred Cow and Independence I know that there is no separate section for communications and not much beyond a second set of HF radios for communications , two ARC-8 sets in the Cow and one ARC-38 and a second 618S in the Independence set up for CW operations at the navigators station. No separate aria or operations centers, not much beyond what would be on a normal transport for that time.
I am going to concede that there may have been an installation of land base or modified teletype equipment prior to 1960 and by the time of SAM 26000 or SAM 27000 radios and teleprinters existed so there would have not been an issue with teletype but still going to remain skeptical of flying teletype in the late forties and fifties, and what’s there in the museums is not supporting your argument.

Ray F

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OK true believers...

YES the Teletype did fly.. Read page 162-3 THE FLYING WHITE HOUSE by  HORST
not a lot of data but talks about him being the first prez to have teletype
 both regular end encoded for secrecy.



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