Subject: Re: 553rd AMS, Nav Aids 1970-71
From:    "GERALD R CUNNING" <cunningfamily5@msn.com>
Date:    Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:23:03 -0800
To:      "Larry Westin" <westin@tdstelme.net>

Larry,
 
Yes.  That is me with the APS-42.  I remember that the flight 
line maintenace guys always tried to grab the units that I 
repaired because they always worked when the put them in the plane.

I just found a picture with the last names of the airmen 
standing in the maintenance shop in front of the APS-42 mockup.
 
Left to right:  Farmer, Binder, Dickinson, Obrian, Criddle, 
Hamilton and DeFlavio
 
I remember one flight crew came into the maintenace shop 
because they were concerned about how the scope looked on 
the plane.  The fellows before me had ran the hash marks 
(mile markers) out to the end of the trace because they 
thought it looked better.  I calibrated them according to 
the specs.  It looked funny to the flight crew because the 
hash marks did not run all the way out to the end of the 
trace.  I remember being a bit worried when they walked 
in but after I showed them the proper calibration method 
they just said thanks and left.  I don't know of any other 
time a flight crew came into the shop so it made quite an 
impression on me. 
 
Hope this info helps.
 
Jerry Cunning