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A day in 1966 when i was working for Pan American Airlines

  1. Pan Am had an overhaul problem with their RCA RADA

    by on 04-20-2005 at 05:10 PM (d p fitzpatrick's Blog)
    The yoke on an RCA RADAR scope could easily be put on backwards making the RADAR picture 180 degrees out.

    It took many hours to rectify this situation.

    Pab am had a real problem here because these scopes were made by RCA in batches and the wire numbers and wire colors were different in each batch so writing up a directive using wire colors or numbers was impossible.

    While solving the problem of how to install it correctly the first time, I remembered ...
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