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Dude! Boo-tee-ful! One minor critique if I may... ETO/8th/9th AF Mustangs used the radio (for the life of me, I can't remember the technical name/#) that did NOT use the wire going from the vertical stab. through the canopy. Plus, it's nice not having to go through that pain when building ETO 'Stangs!
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Very true, Wurger but in the literally thousands of wartime P-51 images I have, I honestly have yet to see one 8th (probably 9th as well) AF Mustang with the aerial wire. Interestingly tho, P-47's definitely DID have the wire, albeit not into the canopy. And unlike me, thanks for remembering it's the SCR-522!Generally that's true. But ... the wire antanna W-106-A was used not only for the SCR-274-N radio. The wire antenna also was used for the Detrola Model 438 / BC 1206 Radio Range Receiver. Contrary to that the blade antenna mast VHF type AN-104-N was used for the VHF SCR-522-A ( a copy of British TR-1143 ) radio set only.
In Europe US fighters didn't use the LF band for communication. But it is known they used radio beacons associated with their home fields for navigation. So at least some of the P-51's might have been equipped with the Detrola/BC-1206 for that purpose, along with a long wire antenna.
Therefore a good image of the kite could be an evidence if the wire was there or not.
Very glad you like it, and than for the info on the radio because I plan to build another after this one seems to have gone missing in the post on its way to Germany but its ongoing so we could still have a happy endingDude! Boo-tee-ful! One minor critique if I may... ETO/8th/9th AF Mustangs used the radio (for the life of me, I can't remember the technical name/#) that did NOT use the wire going from the vertical stab. through the canopy. Plus, it's nice not having to go through that pain when building ETO 'Stangs!
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Very glad you like it, and than for the info on the radio because I plan to build another after this one seems to have gone missing in the post on its way to Germany but its ongoing so we could still have a happy endingDude! Boo-tee-ful! One minor critique if I may... ETO/8th/9th AF Mustangs used the radio (for the life of me, I can't remember the technical name/#) that did NOT use the wire going from the vertical stab. through the canopy. Plus, it's nice not having to go through that pain when building ETO 'Stangs!
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ThanksGreat job