[MRCA] Military Aviation Museum (non) Airshow Reenactment AAR -- Correction
B. Smith
smithab11 at comcast.net
Thu Oct 9 12:29:35 EDT 2025
Whew . . . I don't think my skinny leg could hold in enough rudder for
takeoff. Very nice videos.
Z
On 10/9/2025 12:10 PM, Mark K3MSB wrote:
> Good Gravy....
>
> I was at the Military Aviation Museum in VA Beach last weekend.... NOT
> the Mid Atlantic Air Museum..... Sorry for the typo....
>
> Mark K3MSB
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM Mark K3MSB <mark.k3msb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone
>
> As mentioned before, the airshow was cancelled about a week before
> we were to attend the event, but the group went anyway and had a
> great time! The museum was glad we were there and they treated
> us wonderfully.
>
> Here's a photo of my setup:
>
> image.png
>
> The DF setup is the same as before, but I brought the SCR-287
> instead of the SCR-274N.
>
> The BC-348Q is restored and sports a restored dynamotor, and it
> runs nicely off a pair of batteries in series. Very little
> dynamotor whine. The antenna was a 50 foot wire run from the
> radio tent to another tent, and performed well. I tuned the
> receiver to CHU Canada on 7850 Kc and quite a few people were said
> they were "amazed that radio can hear that far"!
>
> The BC-375 was for display only. The DF setup worked well with
> the Broadcast Band receiver, but alas, no NDB's could be heard
> this time.
>
> Even if there weren't issues with the museum's aircraft, there was
> a temporary flight restriction issued for the Norfolk / Virginia
> Beach area on Saturday due to President Trump being in the area.
> The TFR would have significantly impacted the airshow.
>
> Still, the museum's Grumman Avenger was flying the circuit all
> day qualifying new pilots. Here's a few videos....
>
> https://www.k3msb.com/temp/Avenger1.MOV
> https://www.k3msb.com/temp/Avenger2.MOV
> https://www.k3msb.com/temp/Avenger3.MOV
>
> As far as what worked well etc, nothing different that what I
> reported for the events I participated in earlier this summer.
>
> 73 Mark K3MSB
>
>
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