[Milsurplus] BC-224 C Info needed

[Michael Hanz]

I worked on the one at the Udvar-Hazy museum in 2004 or so, getting the 
correct antennas strung up.  The entire comms/navigation suite was 
essentially lifted from a B-17!  The NASM blurb on the aircraft says 
that it "is a Spanish-built CASA 352-L.   Lufthansa German Airlines 
acquired it for promotional flights, then donated it to the Smithsonian 
in 1987. "

- Mike  KC4TOS


On 6/22/2024 4:48 PM, Hubert Miller 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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Michael Hanz - KC4TOS
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