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Default OT - Movie, "Red Tails"

Stormin Mormon wrote:
I've recently seen a movie, entitled Red Tails. About the Negro
air men who fought over Italy.

What makes me wonder. The fighters and the bombers did
not appear to be able to talk with each other on the two way
radios. I'm curious what kind of radios they had. Tube sets? Was
that before transistors? Would the fighters and bombers be on
different frequencies?


HEAVY tube sets. At least two different frequencies. Bombers would talk
between themselves and their base, Fighters the same. They could talk
between as well but depending on operations at the time they mat not be
as the radios could only use one frequency at a time.


Now days, I think most air planes have two radios, and one is
always set to the emergency freq. But, then, the cost of radios has
come down a bit.

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