Volunteering at the local air museum led to a cool avionics find

Last weekend, I helped out at our town's small air museum during their cleanup day. I was checking an old trainer plane's radio stack, mostly just dusting things off. Behind a loose panel, I spotted a handwritten note about a frequency calibration trick from the 70s. It was a neat piece of history I'd never heard about before. I showed it to the other volunteers, and we all got into talking about how they did things back then. The museum head was so excited, he wants to frame it next to the plane. It felt awesome to connect a bit of local aviation past to what we do now. Just a small thing, but it made the whole day really special!

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the_sage7mo ago

That handwritten note from the 70s about frequency calibration. It's just a old tech tip. People left notes like that all the time in planes. Framing it seems like overkill. It's not a major historical find. Makes a fun volunteer story but that's about it.

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xenajohnson7mo ago

Ever find those in old equipment too?

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benc237mo ago

Disagree, @the_sage, those notes are neat history, lol.

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