[QuadList] Project Jenny - Flying Quads

[Ted Langdell]

Mitch, what can you tell us about the use of different brands of VTRs aboard the Midwest plane(s)?

You report RCA TR-4 vertical decks being airborne.

The Midwest project was the subject of posts in July 2010:
http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/pipermail/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com/2010-July/002966.html

One source http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/knackers/behind.html
shows Ampex VR-1001 vertical transports being used in a DC-6.



The Vietnam YouTube showed Lockheed SuperConstellations.

This page about the Connies has more about the Vietnam television versions:
http://www.dean-boys.com/ec-121.htm

NC-121J--Four R7V-1/C-121Js were converted to NC-121J for use as airborne television transmitters in Viet Nam. A Number of others were converted and many were one of a kind. Some were used for "Black" psychological operations.

And UK off-shore ship-based Radio Caroline's founder had plans for a "Connie" based television opperation:
http://www.cherishedtelevision.co.uk/caroline.html

More about airborne television here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratovision

Ted

Ted Langdell
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e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

On Sep 11, 2013, at 1:28 PM, J. Mitch Hopper wrote:

> 
> Those are the same planes used for MPATI - Midwest Program for Airborne Television.
> I started in the quad world with the State of Illinois and TR-70s producing or duplicating some of the educational classroom television programs that were shipped to Indianapolis where our fleet was stationed.  Hard to see the long UHF antenna boom that dropped from the belly of the plane.  They flew long figure-eight paths over Illinois and Indiana.  Don't know if the military or MPATI was first. I vaguely remember special operations that were necessary if the boom failed to retract before landing. They involved a sledge hammer and hinge-pins!
> 
> The planes I knew all had TR-4s and (I think) TR-60 - though the video shows what is probably a TR-22-HB.  My laptop video isn't too clear.
> 
> I'll take my comfy VTR room and an 8-5 shift any day!
> 
> 
> Sent from my remote device. 
> J. Mitch Hopper
> Custom Video Systems 
> id at brainmist.com 







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