[MRCA] Fw: [ARC5] BC-375 ops in a B-17 May 27&28th

[Christopher Bowne]

This sounds like a great idea, maybe someone with the time and money can head out there.  I think the risk would be pretty high to assume that the existing gear will function if it has been sitting as a static display for a long time,  I suppose a basic wiring harness could be made up to power  someone's loaner BC-375, BD-73 and a BC-348  components from the plane's 28V DC bus.  Even if the the original wiring is still  there,  it might be pretty shaky.  Maybe the existing racks  could at least be used to hold the stuff down, otherwise making it "sat for flight" mechanically secure would also be an issue.  Presumably one of the on-plane wire antennas exists or could be reconstructed.

Remember the time that someone submitted an article to ER many years back about how he activated some of the radio gear in flight on the Collings Foundation B-17 Nine-O-Nine? And the picture of the author with a T-17 in hand showed the command set stuff in the background sitting there with no interconnecting wiring? As far as  I know, at the time  of the ER article ( I toured the plane in Groton, CT shortly afterward) the 909 radio gear was all static displays with no wiring or connectors.  I think there is currently (no pun intended) a plan afoot to get the stuff powered up though.
       On Monday, May 4, 2015 2:21 PM, "arc5 at ix.netcom.com" <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
   

 





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