[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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