[QuadList] quads on a plane?

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Let's face it.  It was the ultimate Cold war Propaganda platform. Fly  it 
in... radio transmitter.... TV Transmitter.... And,,, I am  sure there  were 
setups  that were never really made public... perhaps laying out there  in 
mothballs.... a yet to be acquired aircraft with Quads built in!
 
Ed!
 
In a message dated 7/7/2010 6:06:30 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
david at dcvideo.com writes:

Hello  Skip,

I can't speak as to the "big brother" aspect of surveillance via  air  
and quad machines. It certainly was possible given the other  airborne  
quad machines in use in the sixties. Here are two  examples:

Number  one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest_Program_on_Airborne_Television_Instruct
ion
And...
http://www.chicagotelevision.com/MPATI.htm

VR  1001's can be seen in a picture in the above link and also in the   
rotation on the main page at: http://www.dcvideo.com/

Number  two:

Peter Groom (now deceased), editor at NBC NY, performed was  was  
thought to be the first 2" quad splicing of a program while on  board a  
converted DC 3 (?). The purpose of this effort, which  involved a TR  
22, was to beat the other two networks to air with the  first lengthy  
coverage of Winston Churchill's funeral in the UK.  From the first hand  
story told to me by Peter, upon the death of  Winston Churchill, NBC  
commissioned a crash effort to modify a DC 3  to accommodate a TR 22,  
by removing almost all of the normal cabin  interior, installing a  
specialized power source, and flying Peter (a  UK native), David  
Brinkley (?), and a number of other people, to  London. The plane sat  
on the runway, recording the feed. Upon the  conclusion of the funeral,  
the plane departed. While in flight,  Peter physically spliced the  
tape, with Brinkley doing some VO! The  plane landed in NYC, the tape  
played back to a waiting microwave  van, and it was fed directly to NBC  
and the net.

Apparently  there was spotty "live" coverage from an occasional  
satellite feed  (when in position). But NBC went all out to have the  
first lengthy  coverage.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/january/24/newsid_2692000/2692293
.stm

David  Crosthwait
DC Video
Archived Media Transfer and Re-mastering  Services
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Quoting  Skip Elsheimer <avgeeks at gmail.com>:

> I was at a film  archivist / moonshine symposium in West Virginia and
> somebody was  asking about a mythical airplane that had quad machines
> installed on  board. He said he thought it was a government owned plane 
and
> it would  record video in remote locations.
>
> I said I would ask the  experts..
>
> Skip



 
Thanks,

Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC  

See the Museum's Web Site at _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org/) 

We are always looking for  items to add to the museum's display and ref. 
library - please advise if you  have anything we can use.

Coury House / SMECC
5802 W. Palmaire Ave.  Phone 623-435-1522
Glendale Az 85301 USA




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