For One and All,

A Bit of Radio and WWII History

World War II RAF Gibson Girl Radio Antenna Rescue Kite

http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ6587051567

NOTICE - This are NOT my eBay Auctions and
I am NOT associated with the Seller;
Nor am I 'promoting' this item For Sale.

Hey - Look-Up in the Sky !
It's a Bird . . .
It's a Plane . . .
Not It's a Gibson Girl Kite ! ! ! )


for your viewing enjoyment - iane ~ RHF

RHF wrote:
For One and All,

A Bit of Radio and WWII History

World War II RAF Gibson Girl Radio Antenna Rescue Kite

http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ6587051567

NOTICE - This are NOT my eBay Auctions and
I am NOT associated with the Seller;
Nor am I 'promoting' this item For Sale.

Hey - Look-Up in the Sky !
It's a Bird . . .
It's a Plane . . .
Not It's a Gibson Girl Kite ! ! ! )


for your viewing enjoyment - iane ~ RHF
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When I was a kid, my dad and I built a box kit based on the US Army Air
Corp
rscue box kite. He had scrounged up several yards of the yuckiest
yellow I
have ever seen. It would fly with much lower wind speeds then the drug
store
"franklin" kite. And when we would fly it we always got a lot of
attention.

He tried several mil surplus mail order stores for the twin with wire
used
by real kite antennas, but had no luck. He wanted to see how well a
100'
kite antenna would work with my crystal radio.

Thanks, for now I have another item to add to my ever increasing
project list.
:-)

Terry

RHF wrote:
For One and All,

A Bit of Radio and WWII History

World War II RAF Gibson Girl Radio Antenna Rescue Kite

http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ6587051567

NOTICE - This are NOT my eBay Auctions and
I am NOT associated with the Seller;
Nor am I 'promoting' this item For Sale.

Hey - Look-Up in the Sky !
It's a Bird . . .
It's a Plane . . .
Not It's a Gibson Girl Kite ! ! ! )


for your viewing enjoyment - iane ~ RHF
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.
. .


That is an interesting WWII artifact. Of the many airmen who were shot
down, I wonder if any were able to make contact using this kite
supported antenna.

I would imagine many of those came on the surplus market at the
conclusion of the war. As a kid I found the local surplus store was a
treasure trove of interesting things. A pilot chute with the spring
mechanism removed and a decent fishing weight tied to the strings would
sail a long ways in a good wind. And I disassembled more than one tank
scope for those big solid glass prisms.

WW Two Times.
cuhulin

www.devilfinder.com World War Two Jeeps (Alice is loaded with buku of
my World War Two Jeep websites) [yeah,I sure am Larry,you auld fart]
When you get to Brian's World War Two Jeeps website,, Stop right there
and turn the Power On.
cuhulin