Warbird Information Exchange

This isn't really a restoration question as such- I am currently working on a radio display for my WWII bomber radios,(ARC-5, BC-375, BC-348, etc) and would like to make a decent mock-up of a B-26 radio operators shelving. Does anyone have a copy of the Martin blueprints for this part of the B-26, or some good photos of the radio shelving, and measurements? I have several photos of the setup in "Flak Bait", and a few others, but it is hard to come up with exact dimensions, and I can't tell if there are rear uprights, or if it just connects to bulkhead brackets.

The display will be a "traveling" one, so I can take it for displays with the APS, at Reading, and, hopefully, Oshkosh this year.

Thanks!
Robbie

Are you talking about marauder or invader?
JOHN

...Does anyone have a copy of the Martin blueprints...

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

Good Point- The Martin B-26 Marauder, or, alternately, the "Flying Prostitute"...
Thanks!
Robbie

If memory serves, the uprights just connect to fuse stringers. I have a navigators table that I can send ya pics and measurements of if ya want...

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Regards,

Jase
www.b26marauder.com
"I'm having a BLAST!!" 2007 CAF Wing Staff Conference

RIP Gary Austin..always in our hearts

Hi Jase- Thanks for the offer- I mainly need the height and width(and shelf spacing) for the Radio Operator's station for the display I am building. I am not even sure where the navigator is on the B-26! I have most of the radios, and am trying to set it up so it looks as though we'd taken the radio operator station out of a hangar queen for use as a testing rack.

My interest in radios ties in with my love of WWII aircraft- I have a reasonably decent set of the bomber radios, and am trying to put together the display to look decent, be portable, and operable. I plan to have my Ham license soon, and want to be able to run the radios at airshows where I display with the Capitol Wing, Airmen's Preservation Society. http://www.capitalwingaps.org/capwingaps.html

The annual Reading WWII Weekend is coming up on June 6-7-8, and I will be having the "Radio and Instrument Section" out for its first full display. http://www.maam.org/wwii/ww2_sched.htm

I will try to post pics of the radio & instrument section equipment sometime soon...

Robbie