[Milsurplus] Milsurplus Digest, Vol 257, Issue 22

[robinson at tuberadio.com]

Hi Charlie,

I got some doco about 12 months ago that has
a manual for the LINK trainer.
I'll dig it out if it is any use to you.

Regards
Ray

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> If you are familiar with the red dot style rifle sight, I think George 
> N.
> Martin was thinking along that line in April, 1943.  The attached pic 
> shows
> him buying the book, 'Aircraft Radio and Electrical Equipment', by
> H.K.Morgan on April 30, 1943, from the Georgia Division of the Bell
> Aircraft Corp.  Perhaps he was an employee, note the sales ticket where 
> it
> says, "I hereby authorize Bell Corp. to deduct above amount from my pay 
> in
> _____weekly installments."
> 
> He was doodling on a piece of paper which he stuck in the pages in the
> chapter on 'Oscillographs'.  It is hard to read his writing, it is very
> tiny and light, but it appears he was drawing a circuit that was taking
> inputs from the airspeed 'computer' (his words) a logarithmic taper pot
> attached to a gun mount, a  a magnetic input from a compass all to 
> deflect
> the spot on a CRT.  His notes refer to aim, angle, leading, and show a
> small plane with single and dual tail guns.  Perhaps he was sketching a
> simple drawing of the existing system in a plane, or he was trying to
> create a better way to shoot down the enemy.
> 
> I am always on the look out for books on how things were wired in WW II
> aircraft, especially the B17 that I am involved with the rebuild of.  I
> have two of these books, one I got from Brian, KN4R, the other I bought
> from ABE Books several months earlier, but I do not know which one the
> paperwork was in.  The book also contains info and schematics on 
> several
> pieces of gear, a lot of RCA stuff , a Collins 17D transmitter,  
> various
> Lear transmitters including the UT-6 that I spent a couple years trying 
> to
> find info on, and a bunch of Western Electric aviation gear.  Fold out
> schematics on very thin paper, inter aircraft wiring diagrams and a ton 
> of
> info on how things interconnected and functioned are included in the 
> almost
> 400 page book with very small print.  I did  a comparison on books 
> several
> years ago, basic novels that seem to always be in hardback and thick.
> Turns out, books used to have small print and 700-900 words on a page, 
> but
> now, they use thicker paper, larger print, with about 300 words on a 
> page.
> Again, with books and more words per page using less paper,  those of 
> us
> who bought Coke and milk in a glass bottle to be turned in, cleaned and
> refilled, fixed out toaster and vacuum instead of throwing them away, 
> were
> still more environmentally aligned than the latest GenZ person.
> 
> I have a 1930's 3" Triumph 'Oscillograph' that still works quite well, 
> but
> I had to put in one of those little power supplies I found on Amazon 
> that
> makes 2000 volts out of 6 which I got by rectifying and filtering the
> filament volts, needed  to use for the trace as the HV tapped secondary
> quite making CRT HV.   Makes a nice 160 and 75 meter AM mod indicator.
> 
> If you see books on epay or used book sites about vintage aircraft,
> especially any on electrical or radio, power plants are also  
> interesting,
> they are great reads on how things were done in the day, like how many
> planes they wrecked trying to figure out a supercharger for all 
> altitudes
> .  While today we have a computer that feeds drivers and takes in 
> signals
> from sensors,  those are childs play when you see how it was all done 
> in
> the days of analog, both mechanical and electrical.  Check out the 
> aiming
> computer for the 16" rifles on any WW II battleship.
> 
> Charlie in NC
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