<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.6400" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV>First - yes, I really am that old - darn it. This stretches my brain
archives.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I believe there were several bases of MPATI operation. There was a second
group that flew the Nebraska area. All went under at the same time.
Federal funding??? Not sure. </DIV>
<DIV>Most of the pictures on the Internet about MPATI show a military type
person in one of two poses - and the VTR is an odd one of the VR-1000
line. I assume they are from the Vietnam Jenny project. I know of no
remaining pictures of the actual AIT (Agency for Instructional Television -
Bloomington, IN) planes. The photos I saw (I was never on one of the
aircraft) showed RCA VTRs - one vertical - probably TR-4HB, and the other
horizontal - probably TR-22HB - and featured a jumpsuited operator definitely
not military. But, I saw those photos in the way-back-when days. I
wonder how the typical air turbulence would affect the headwheel
stability? But, I know most of the material was B&W and probably
played in switch-lock or tonewheel anyway.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>If memory serves (and it doesn't always!) the Nebraska planes were fed
tapes from GPNTV (Great Plains National TV - Lincoln, NB) who we (the state of
IL) also dubbed and distributed for. That is when we saw the first flood
of new materials from the L.A. ETV market (Western Instructional Video) in....
gasp... color!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So long ago, so many dead brain cells along the way!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>My website still has a few slide logos from the early ETV fare buried in a
story about WJJY-TV. <A href="">www.brainmist.com</A> - click the
menu button for "The Rise & Fall of WJJY-TV". My favorite show (slide
on the website)... "The Communists"! ETV was so left wing back in the
day. Hard to remember.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>J. Mitch Hopper<BR>Custom Video Systems
Co.<BR>Rochester, IL<BR>217-498-8438<BR><A
href="mailto:id@brainmist.com">id@brainmist.com</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's been lovely but I have to scream
now.<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>