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Topic Title: Good Range Rats Page
Topic Summary: My pops was a well-known downrange man for RCA
Created On: 06/11/2012 12:40 PM
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06/11/2012 12:40 PM
TheLetterTBird Posts: 7842 Joined: 10/20/2005	http://spacecovers.com/jpers/z...rca_etr_rangerat01.htm ------------------------- Learn something. Anything. Please.
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06/22/2012 07:46 AM
bob3000 Posts: 12601 Joined: 07/13/2004	VERY COOL, TBird! I suspect my Grandpa and possibly my Dad knows yours... I'll send u a pm. Thanks for posting this! 5/5 ------------------------- And Bob will ALWAYS be my numero uno. -Tiffanys
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06/28/2012 05:33 PM
TheLetterTBird Posts: 7842 Joined: 10/20/2005	I sent you one. RCA Service Company was sub-contracted to the Air Force through Pan Am and did a lot of tracking work. I actually lived on GBI, Grand Turk and Antigua when I was small. My dad learned radar in the Navy where he flew on sub hunters as radar operator off small carriers. ------------------------- Learn something. Anything. Please.
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06/29/2012 05:01 AM
bob3000 Posts: 12601 Joined: 07/13/2004	thanks for that PM, I'll forward the info and see what I can find out. I think we may have an RCA connection in the family.... I have a bunch of those 1st day covers, too. Very neat to hear about the history of the Range Rats. What a great gig to have had..B3K ------------------------- And Bob will ALWAYS be my numero uno. -Tiffanys
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07/01/2012 05:04 AM
dingpatch Posts: 6920 Joined: 07/24/2003	My dad was not a regular "Rat", but in the 50's he was always going down to set up photography for re-entrees. He started with RCA in 1954 and then moved to Technicolor when the contract changed. Here's some pics of the very early days at the Cape. The original RCA photog crew, My Dad is on far right: State-Of-The-Art range telemetry (my Dad is on the right): Occupational hazards. A "tiny" one, my Dad asked why they even bothered with it!: Edited: 07/02/2012 at 11:40 AM by dingpatch
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07/14/2012 02:48 PM
Firesurfer Posts: 348 Joined: 11/20/2004	My wifes Dad used to work for RCA at the Cape. His name was Robert Hines. He was down range for years, mostly as a camera man, i believe.
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08/24/2012 05:25 PM
rwing Posts: 242 Joined: 10/05/2008	I actually lived on GBI, Grand Turk and Antigua when I was small. I probably knew your dad...I was there in the early 70's as a GI.
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