[Milsurplus] BC-224 C Info needed

[gfsmith]

 Hi Hue,Some aircraft designs from WW2 were manufactured quite a few years after the end of it. The most notable for me is the Messerschmitt Bf 109, variants of which were manufactured in Spain up until 1958. It was finally retired in Dec 1965. The Vought F4J Corsair was also used by US Marines for ground attack up until 1957.
73, Gordon KJ6IKT

    On Saturday, June 22, 2024 at 01:48:47 PM PDT, Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:  
 
  
>Have you seen?
 
>https://www.nonstopsystems.com/radio/pdf-radio/article-bc348-kf6nur.pdf
 
>Jim
 
  
 
I was astonished to read about the BC-348 in a JU-52 aircraft ( did i read that here, or where ? ). I thought, what an abomination. But i thought before i shot my mouth off with my opinion, i’d have a look at JU-52 subject online. I was surprised that something like 545 were built AFTER WWII end, and that Swiss
 
military operated them until, get this, 1982. For a machine, that is longevity. So that pairing after all, is not so unlikely.
 
It was interesting for me to read up on the JU-52 as it always seemed to me like a horribly obsoleted design. I read about 18 April 1943 when Allies shot
 
down 24 and another 35 had to crash land. That is not sustainable, to say the least. The very interesting Wiki article also mentioned Cape Bon, Tunisia,
 
which my father mentioned when he recalled the North Africa campaign. He told me they passed by a trashed Axis airfield, but his convoy was not
 
stopping for any souvenir shopping. I also now reading a really hair-raising account by a JU-52 pilot taking off from Stalingrad, his plane barely
 
clearing wreckage on the field. And i recall reading about Soviet tanks overrunning an airfield supplying Stalingrad, the JU-52s struggling to get under
 
way and escape the Soviet tanks – pure pandemonium; some shot down, some colliding in air, some escaping.
 
I have the front panel, only, of a FuG10 transmitter recovered at Stalingrad. It’s permanently jammed on 5990 kHz. Was on one of some 500 aircraft lost
 
in that affair.
 
Excuse the digression, please.
 
-Hue Miller
 
  
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