[Milsurplus] PBY-5A ATD/ARB photo?

Hubert Miller Kargo_cult at msn.com
Sat Aug 5 18:44:03 EDT 2017


This may already be well known to this discussion, but….one of the old CQ magazine articles, probably around 1960 – 1963 era, showed the tail area inside. As I recall,
only an ARB and some Command receivers were visible, no other transmitter. At the time I read the article, it was pre-internet, and I puzzled over what kind of an
aircraft the BTD-1 was. 

Thanks for the SOC3 reference. I think that gives the stamp of plausible authenticity to anyone's ATD / ARB setup. 
-H

>From: Michael Hanz [mailto:aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org] 

>....SO3C-3 - Reduced weight variant of the Curtiss SO3C-2 floatplane scout with detailed improvements and catapult operation ability removed.  Only 39 were built with a further 659 cancelled.  This is the only aircraft that in my simple mind might have initially received the ATD...all 39 of them...:-)


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