[Milsurplus] Discovering Old Mail: First USA Jet Flight - October 1942

[David Stinson]

Hello Larry.
I was going over old mail and found this from a year ago.
Must have rattled-around inside my empty head and
fallen out of my ears at the time:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LARRY D GODEK" <telegrapher at q.com>
Subject: [Milsurplus] Video: First USA Jet Flight - October 1942

About 5:17 into the video you'll see a ground controller type 
communicating with the P-59 via a triple command set transmitter 
arrangement mounted in a box out along the flightline or desert 
someplace.  Can't see what the receiver(s) is/are because the inside 
of the box is shaded.  Any guesses?  Pretty neat huh?
> <http://videosift.com/video/Americas-First-Jet-Flight-October-1942>

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I have a book documenting that the P-59 was equipped
with SCR-274N, including photos of the control boxes
in the cockpit.  If you look behind the pilot at 1:07
in your video, you'll see the rear of a 274N RX rack
and the dynamotors.
And to answer your question: I believe the receivers were
274N, because the reflections under what he's tuning
match the bright spots on a receiver rack.  Plus we
have photos of similiar installations.
How about that "door bell" solution to the sticking
gauges problem?  Men after my own heart!

73 Dave AB5S