Inside the 'Gibson Girl' Survival Radio
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I did PMs and repairs to the CRT-3s during my first tour in Keflavik. We had C-117s, C-118s, and the AF had some EC-121s we supported that had Gibson Girls in their life rafts. Somewhere in my stuff I have still have a box kite from the kit. We joked that they really didn't work but they would give you something to do while waiting to die.
I went to AFROTC summer training in the Summer of 1977 at Rickenbacher AFB, OH. The flying unit there had C-123K's.
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WingsOfGold
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We had them on the life rafts on our C118's, did both morse and hand cranked emergency. None of us A/C knew morse that I know of, was required maybe the tweet radio operator or navaguesser. They also came with a salt water activated hydrogen balloon that carried the balloon up. I took one that was decades out of date, threw it in Stony Creek, blew up maybe a foot in diameter and petered out. Rubber was dry rot.
The emergency beacon we had on C9's 123.5VHF and 243UHF (I think) along with a jettonsible one on the vert stabilizer (which I accidentally launched once). How was I supposed to know there was a hot lug behind the loose rivet I was drilling out? LOLOL
Called tower said to ignore distress call! That was by far my most expensive phuck up. No idea what it cost but I did hear about it......... shiit happens.
They were still in the black with me, broken ez out in T56 gearbox that I level said impossible to get out. I took a crack at it with a die grinder being the 120 sup, nothing to lose..... looked like a hero that day. $500k saved.
All counts on 20 as they said.
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