Federal 500AT sounds at '42 WWII LA air raid re-enactment

[StonedChipmunk]

Yeah, but then we'd be fighting over who gets to press the button

[ThunderStorm1000T]

Their museum has two SD10s and one 500AT.

So they have two of those "sound all arounds?" I happened to only see one, and the choppers looked pretty good...maybe that's the one that they sounded at the more recent event. I can't say the same about the housing, though, as it looks pretty badly rusted =[



P.S: I ask your pardon if I have at all "necroposted". It's just that I only was able to stumble upon this find the beginning of this week.

[Crazywarriorman]

I remember Charles saying something about the SD-10 and
500T in the back storage room, protected from the elements.

[kx250rider]

The one they sounded was the 500T in the store room. The other SD-10 is fully restored, and up on a shelf in the store room with the 500T. That rusty sad thing, is just a housing or housing & chopper; no motor. The pole and from which it came, and the control box, are still mounted a few blocks north on Gaffey St (or so as of about a year ago last time I was by there).

One of these days, I might go again and see the guy in charge there, and see if he'd take a WWII-era siren in trade for that 500T. They really didn't want a siren too new for the World War II displays, but those two LA sirens were the only ones they could get hold of at the time. LA County had a handful of Model 5s, if I'm accurate, during WWII.

Charles

[EL1998P71]

Looks like to me that 500T projector is just an SD-10 bottom.
It doesn't look at all like the Dundee one or like my 500-SH (my projector is two parts)

[Jim Z]

Looks like to me that 500T projector is just an SD-10 bottom.
It doesn't look at all like the Dundee one or like my 500-SH (my projector is two parts)

there's like eleventy-billion different versions of the 500, AFAIK.