Patrick D. McCaslin Interview, 25 February 2001
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| INT: | Was that the only radar system on board? Did the gunner have a separate radar system? | |
| PM: | Yeah, the gunner has his. The EW may have had—I don't know if he had radar per say. I think the gunner had—on a H-model he did. He used radar acquisition for his. | |
| INT: | And his radar—what type of a system would that have been? Would that have been—wasn't tied into this ASQ system, right? It was separate? | |
| PM: | It was a separate system but I don't remember where it was located on the airplane. | |
| INT: | And he would've been concerned about looking backwards? | |
| PM: | Yeah, right. | |
| INT: | So ASQ-38 that's just some technical name for that type of— | |
| PM: | Yeah, I'm not sure what it stands for. | |
| INT: | Okay, I'll just read this one. He says he asked the radar nav to put radar in station keeping mode. Oh, how sure are you that Chuck Ritchie was the radar nav. Not a man named Jim Brough [sp?]. | |
| PM: | Jim Brough was the guy that we replaced. He was the guy that had been in StanEval, was moved down, and we were moved up. | |
| INT: | Oh, okay. He wants to know when this thing moved up to within one mile of the airplane are you sure that it maneuvered? | |
| PM: | Maneuvered? Well, it's difficult to know. I mean, all I can do is tell you that at one scan it was bright—co-altitude. You would think it would be co-altitude when it was that bright. It was 3 miles off our left wing, and the next scan 3 seconds later it was 1 mile off our left wing. | |
| INT: | Yeah. That's all you know? | |
| PM: | I mean that's all I know. It moved the same direction we did, descending, and then moved laterally within 3 seconds to one mile off our left wing. | |
| INT: | Okay. Now, there's a disagreement in your memories. Goduto doesn't remember having any odd returns on his EW equipment. He had, I think he said about a dozen returns, but he said after he thought about it they seemed all normal. |
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