VT-8 TBF at Midway

[SaparotRob]

Try Admiral U. Furashita (it's a joke name but it'll get you there). Or Imperial Japanese Navy homepage. It worked for me a few years ago.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

No soap here.

 

[manta22]

I still have a few texts, workbooks, and programmed instruction booklets from my Avionics "A" and Training Device "A" schools circa 1970, and they are the clearest, simplest, and most retentive training publications I've ever seen. I saw high school dropouts with eighth grade educations (selected by the testing system for their aptitude, not their knowledge) turned into competent electronics technicians in 40 weeks. Those of us who had more education were tasked with tutoring those kids who had educational deficits. I'm mathematically deficient myself, but I and my fast track classmates wound up teaching these guys algebra and trigonometry. Everything was happening at an accelerated pace, and in part time night school we covered three years of remedial high school math in three months. And still had time for flying lessons and the occaisonal evening at the EM Club.

Our Corporal Type IIB guidance system was all vacuum tubes.

 

[SaparotRob]

Our Corporal Type IIB guidance system was all vacuum tubes.

Did you ever repair the guidance system by smacking it? That always worked with our old tube TVs.

 

[manta22]

Did you ever repair the guidance system by smacking it? That always worked with our old tube TVs.

Believe it or not, an officer caught an operator lying on his back on the floor of our radar van, kicking the front control panel. "What kind of maintenance do you call that, Soldier?' he demanded. Still kicking, the operator replied "Brogan maintenance, Sir!"

 

[SaparotRob]

No soap here.

Try www.combinedfleet.com

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Try www.combinedfleet.com

Yeah, looked there, no luck. Thanks anyway.

 

[MIflyer]

Did you ever repair the guidance system by smacking it?

The radar for our Atlas space booster guidance system dated from the 1950's. Since it was designed for ICBM's there was a "Confidence Light" on each cabinet that lit to indicate there was a problem inside. One cabinet held a reference oscillator used to check the radar frequency and that oscillator used a heater to keep the resonant cavity at a constant temperature. Problem was, the heater relay had to handle a little more than its actual rated power, and that resulted in the contacts welding themselves together and the temperature from getting too high. The fix when the confidence light lit on that cabinet was to hit just the right spot to make the relay contacts pop open. (I had an air conditioner here at my house that would do the same thing when we had our Daily Momentary Power Dropout.)

They finally decided to fix the problem by installing a modern digital temperature controller. This news was greeted with a certain amount of trepidation by the Air Force. After all, we knew how to fix the sticky relay, but this new digital gizmo ....,.