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the330thbg
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What is this added here.., at arrow...
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I know the 330th (as did other BG's) had several designated 'Porcupine' aircraft for ECM as well as several 'Weatherships".. but this is the first I have seen one of our aircraft with this antennae placed here. Any ideas?

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That could be a weather ship, Smis. That attachment looks like some kind of air-sampling gatherer rather than an antenna. There are photos of postwar WB-29s with the same device located on the left side of the nose. The weather observer was stationed in the bombardier compartment on these weather planes, so that may be an answer to your question.

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Ok,
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I know there was at least one 'weather' ship in the group.., but have no additional info than that. This is K-42, but not the same K-42 I have a SN for.., so I am toast.

There is a reference to another K-42 with:

Block/SN: B-29-70-BW 44-69995

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Here is one of our 'Porcupine ECM' ships K-57!
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This photo was taken in the CONUS. At Walker, or Kearney I believe. They then flew her out.

This was a B-29-60-BW SN: 42-69766. She actually went down with all hands on deck over Kobe on 5 June.

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The device we discussed on this thread is known as a psychrometer and is used to measure relative humidity.

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Cool!

Thanks!!!! :D

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Would be nice if the pictures posted were still visable and not "this image has been deleted by photobucket' where, I assume, the pictures were originally shown-

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what's the point of photobucket in regard to wix if every pic in the world gets deleted??

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The image is usually moved or deleted by the user - just as they could be if hosted on WIX.

Why people move the pics after posting, thus breaking the link and leaving a mystery behind beats me.

I've been using photobucket for years now, and all the pics I've posted are still available.

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If 330th isn't able to reinstate his original photo I'll post a different shot this evening.

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Voila!

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Thank you!

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Yes indeed, Thanx for reposting the pix!

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Here is one of our 'Porcupine ECM' ships K-57!

Possibly so, but the two red boxes with interconnecting arrows contain antennas for the SCR –729 or its later derivative AN/APN-2. Both systems were interrogator-responsors and neither, by design, functioned in the countermeasures role. -Adrian
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omega7 wrote:
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Here is one of our 'Porcupine ECM' ships K-57!

Possibly so, but the two red boxes with interconnecting arrows contain antennas for the SCR –729 or its later derivative AN/APN-2. Both systems were interrogator-responsors and neither, by design, functioned in the countermeasures role. -Adrian


Found this info online:

http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/radar-13.htm

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