Sun May 31, 2009 10:53 pm
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Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:38 am
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Mon Jun 01, 2009 7:07 pm
k5dh wrote:Y'all wouldn't believe the condition of our TC-45J. It's truly a time capsule! I mean, how often, in this day and age, do you run across a former military airplane like this one that has never, ever been civilianized?I poked around inside of it a little bit, and I was stunned at just how original it is. All of the instruments, placards, radio gear, and so forth, are just like the Navy left them when they surplused the airplane. As Bill mentioned, I believe the Navy used this ship as a communications and/or navigation trainer, as it has only four seats (two in the cockpit and two immediately behind those) and all of the original ARC-5, ARN-6, and other navigation-type radios are still present and connected. Mind-blowing!
There has to be someone here in the D/FW area who'd like to be the "point man" on restoring this incredible piece of history. It would be a terrible shame to allow it to sit in that dark storage hangar much longer! Please contact Bill and make your presence known!
Cheers,
Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:20 pm
Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:39 am
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Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:00 pm
Holedigger wrote:What is that device in the last pic, an adjustable level for measuring degrees of control surface movement?
Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:54 pm
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Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:07 am
Matt Gunsch wrote:
This could be a training picture for the 3 german POWs that escaped Papago Park with a folding boat with plans to get to the river and float to the baja. Just like in the picture, the river in AZ does not have water in it.
Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:06 pm
Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:17 pm