[Milsurplus] [ARC5] B-10 Exported with SCR-134, SCR-183

[Glen Zook]

Has anyone looked for information on the Martin B-12 / B-12A?  This was the same aircraft but with different engines.
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that a Philippine flown B-10 or B-12 actually sank a Japanese warship during the first months of World War II. Glen, K9STH Website: http://k9sth.net
      From: Mark K3MSB <mark.k3msb at gmail.com>
 To: Mike Morrow <kk5f at arrl.net> 
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 Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 5:13 PM
 Subject: Re: [ARC5] [Milsurplus] B-10 Exported with SCR-134, SCR-183
   
Hi Mike

Well, I'm not surprised various sources do not agree on something that
occurred 85 years ago!

I show the XB-907, XB-10, 14 YB-10, and a single YB-10A were made between
1932 and 1933.

Doing a quick sanity check on Wikipedia "The first 14 aircraft were
designated YB-10 and delivered to Wright Field, starting in November 1933.
The production model of the XB-10, the YB-10 was very similar to its
prototype"

I certainly agree that the radios delivered on the early variants were
probably not the ones later ones.

Here's a photo of the cockpit of a B-10B (of which about 105 were produced
between 1934 and 1936).

http://www.k3msb.com/temp/B10B_Cockpit.jpg

Note the coffee grinder towards the left of the control panel.  That looks
similiar to one used with an ARB (and I have no idea if that's what it
is.....).  Point being, I don't think that remote head was controlling an
SCR-134,  Different radios may very well have been used in later variants
(or changed during the aricraft's career, which lasted in some fashion
towards the latter part of WW II.).