{"id":9970,"date":"2022-02-24T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/02\/24\/old-military-radios-at-the-air-and-space-museum-udvar-hazy-center-and-autogyros\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:00","slug":"old-military-radios-at-the-air-and-space-museum-udvar-hazy-center-and-autogyros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/02\/24\/old-military-radios-at-the-air-and-space-museum-udvar-hazy-center-and-autogyros\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Military Radios at the Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center, and Autogyros"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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My son Bill and I were out at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center (out near Dulles Airport, where they display the really big stuff). We spotted these old military radios. The ARC-5 Command sets caught my eye. Of course I was thinking about the great VFO parts inside those boxes… The acknowledgement of the ARC-5’s contribution to ham radio (on the card) was nice. <\/b><\/div>\n

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They also have an ART-13 on display. <\/b><\/div>\n
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We had a lot of fun looking at all the planes. We were especially impressed by the Autogyros.<\/b> <\/div>\n
The Bensen B-6 Gyroglider seemed to be really pushing the envelope (of good sense!). This was a an Autogyro with NO MOTOR. It was towed! No license required as long as you didn’t release the tow line. Note that it was designed in 1954 to introduce teenagers “to the thrills of flight at minimal cost.” The headgear and goggles were key. And the kit was only $100! <\/b><\/div>\n

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My son Bill and I were out at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center (out near Dulles Airport, where they display the really big stuff). We spotted these old military radios. The ARC-5 Command sets caught my eye. Of course I was thinking about the great VFO parts inside those boxes… The acknowledgement … Continue reading “Old Military Radios at the Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center, and Autogyros”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,243,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-military-radios","category-vfo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9977,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970\/revisions\/9977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}