I always have been fasinated with this World War 2 / Korean fighter plane starting back from the TV series Bah Bah Blacksheep. I just got a old Monogram model from 1963 a month ago. Anybody know what kind of radios these guys were using back then ?
Yes an 18 cylinder radial engine would create a certain amount of vibration.When one considers that these planes have an incredible amount of vibration (consider the horsepower of these planes) - it's a wonder that the radios didn't self-destruct. A tube radio at that!
I think you will find this interesting,,,, basically 2 meters ! I'm not 100% sure about the Navy but the Army Airforces used a five channel VHF radio that weighed about 80 lbs! I think I remember reading somewhere the freq range was 130 to 150 mhz. If equipped they had HF also.
Nice looking model, did you build it?
Nice job ! The antenna just forward and to the right of the cockpit looks about like a 5/8 wave for 2M ha ha.
I'm having trouble posting pic's. Please look up the P-38 and P-39.
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