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Old 21st May 2021, 11:13 am   #1
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Anyone know what comms. equipment would have been installed in the aircraft used in parachute training? I'm not entirely sure of which types of aircraft that were used but the ones I'm thinking of would have flown out from Ringway (Nr Manchester) to a drop zone over Cheshire (The Tatton Estate)

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Old 21st May 2021, 11:20 am   #2
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Hi Lawrence, I presume you are referring to WW2 era hence military parachuting, at least according to this website http://www.justordinarymen.org.uk/pa...095561265.html in which it mentions that Whitley aircraft were used. If nobody here knows the air radio installation used it might be worth posting a query to VMARS. Cheers, Jerry
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Thanks for the link Jerry.

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According to the book "Arnhem 1944 A Reappraisal" which goes into the history of British airborne forces and the failures of leadership at the top which led to Arnhem, the RAF viewed the parachute force initially as irrelevant and only provided dangerously unsuitable obsolete bombers for training.
These would have probably been fitted with the R1082/T1083 GP installation, difficult to tune and set up (the receiver came with a box of 28 plug-in coils), which was replaced with the familiar T1154/R1155 set up.
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I would think the Whitley was fitted with either the TR9 or the T1083/R1082, but it's not an aircraft I have studied.

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Thanks both for the info about the comms. T/R, I knew a chap who was at Arnhem, Major Tony Hibbert, he lived at Trebah Gardens and was a customer of mine.

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Here you go http://www.chavfreezone.me.uk/t1154r...54m-85660.html Jerry
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Old 21st May 2021, 3:23 pm   #8
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Cheers, I've got the schematic for the receiver on file somewhere from when I was looking for ideas to build another regen receiver.

What sort of T/R do you think they would be using at Ringway? (The drop zone was only about four or five miles away)

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