[Milsurplus] "The Restoration" of a Northrup N-3PB

[Hue Miller]

".....also the poor serviceability of the Lear radio equipment was to cause 
many abandoned missions. To keep these radios operational, wireless 
operators were taught
to make in-flight repairs, and even though the standing order was to return 
to base should the radios fail during flight, as time passed, the airmen 
largely disobeyed
that directive."

I think this must mean Lear commercial small-plane radio. If the operators 
could repair in flight, I think that would have to mean connector or fuse 
problems.

"The Restoration", David J. Bean, 2002. About recovery in Iceland of a 
wrecked Northrup N-3PB flown by Norwegian Air Force on antisubmarine 
patrols.
Amazing that a plane could be rebuilt ( remanufactured! ) from such junk.

This book is actually TOO long. Too many lists of contributors, thank-you 
notes, reproduced illegible letters, lists of 'diving team members' etc. 
etc.
-Hue Miller