[Milsurplus] Radios in movies

[Ray Fantini]

Its in there a couple times, once when admiral Halsey tells the radio operator to send a message  back to Pearl, where the actor flips the filter switch to get the receiver to transmit that stands out in my mind. Imagine it's no worse than when the show the Japanese spotter plane that sites the US fleet who pilot turns on his radio to transmit that's clearly a ARN-6 C-149 head that he switches from AM to CW, at least the labels are in Japanese.
Has to be some form of brain rot on my part to notice this stuff.

Ray  F/KA3EKH


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Ray..,I don't remember seeing the 1155..but maybe it was so egregious to me that I've completely blotted it out of memory..

Paul
N6FEG
On Fri, Dec 5, 2025, 10:43 AM Brenda Gentry via Milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net<mailto:milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>> wrote:

I spotted the R-1155 immediately.  One of the worst technical inconsistencies was aircraft engines coming to an instant stop with a loud "clunk" when they ran out of fuel. In real life, there would be sputtering and backfiring followed by the propeller windmilling until it was feathered. Despite these things, it was not a bad film.

   B. Gentry, KA2IVY
On 12/5/25 12:06 PM, Ray Fantini via Milsurplus wrote:
Last thing on the subject before I stop wasting everyone's time on this. The 2019 " Midway " was ok I guess, but for some weird reason every time the showed a radio close enough to recognize it was a British R-1155
Anyone else notice that?

Ray F/KA3EKH





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