13 Mar
2011
13 Mar
'11
9:50 a.m.
On 3/13/11 12:40 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
OK, found - this is an AN/APM-446 Radar Set Test
Station for the
F/A-18, missing a few parts.
That's quite a mishmash. I wonder how many thousands of percent the
contractor's profit margin was on that. It probably cost the gov't tens
of millions of dollars.
Those are indeed nice shockmounted racks - I am
starting to see them
in the dead ships, but I never want to actually have to move one.
I've moved one, once. AFTER unloading it (it contained one of the
coveted rackmount VAX-6000s), it took four guys to lift onto the back of
a pickup truck, and we were straining.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL