Bits
Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:44 pm
Hi guys , interesting thread i have original P40E , Avro Anson , Fairey Battle main panels , have cockpit projects for second two , parts from a few wrecked RAAF P40s from crash sites , CAC Boomerang parts from crash sites , parts of a Westland Wapiti , Hawker Demon , many WW1 , WW2 instruments some German and Japanese instruments , thats about it , still finding stuff , the parts are still out there!
cheers dave
P.S. If i get unmarried im keeping all of it !
cheers dave
P.S. If i get unmarried im keeping all of it !
Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:28 pm
Some things I can remember, are:
1) The Load Adjuster from 8th AF B-17G 43-37800 (486th BG). There's a pic of this bird in one of those small softcover books on the 8th AF.
2) Deck planking from USS Cabot.
3) Parts from CVS-12 USS Hornet - gathered during her time with Astoria Metals - when it looked like she was going to be scrapped.
4) Left teardrop windscreen panel from a P-51D.
5) Brick (if that brick could talk!) from 336th FS blast pen (4th FG, Debden), along with numerous pieces of asphalt picked up, and also pieces of 334th FS's hangar I gathered before it was demolished.
6) Exploded shell casings from a 4th FG P-51B that went through the Debden fenceline. The crashed plane is shown in Garry Fry's Debden Eagles softcover book.
Over to you . . .
Wade
1) The Load Adjuster from 8th AF B-17G 43-37800 (486th BG). There's a pic of this bird in one of those small softcover books on the 8th AF.
2) Deck planking from USS Cabot.
3) Parts from CVS-12 USS Hornet - gathered during her time with Astoria Metals - when it looked like she was going to be scrapped.
4) Left teardrop windscreen panel from a P-51D.
5) Brick (if that brick could talk!) from 336th FS blast pen (4th FG, Debden), along with numerous pieces of asphalt picked up, and also pieces of 334th FS's hangar I gathered before it was demolished.
6) Exploded shell casings from a 4th FG P-51B that went through the Debden fenceline. The crashed plane is shown in Garry Fry's Debden Eagles softcover book.
Over to you . . .
Wade
Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:41 pm
Wade,
We gotta quit meeting like this!
Actual aircraft parts include a British projection gunsight (still works), USN gun camera (no film, first thing I checked) and a B-17 rate of climb indicator. My wife caught me once garbed out in flying helmet, googles and O2 mask looking thru the lit up gunsight and watching "Battle of Britain" making RAT A TAT sounds. She thought I was a real Walter Smitty type! Boy was I surprised she even knew who that was!
We gotta quit meeting like this!
Actual aircraft parts include a British projection gunsight (still works), USN gun camera (no film, first thing I checked) and a B-17 rate of climb indicator. My wife caught me once garbed out in flying helmet, googles and O2 mask looking thru the lit up gunsight and watching "Battle of Britain" making RAT A TAT sounds. She thought I was a real Walter Smitty type! Boy was I surprised she even knew who that was!
Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:56 pm
tim, great gift!!! can i borrow it to give my ex wife a couple of lumps?? 
Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:24 pm
tom d. friedman wrote:tim, great gift!!! can i borrow it to give my ex wife a couple of lumps??
No, Blood is corrosive and I need to prevent any more rust and other things from destroying my new toy. Seeing blood and other stuff on aircraft parts does not bring back happy memories also.
My wife was just so happy when she found out I was going to be getting it. I can't even tell you.
Tim
Warbird parts
Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:52 pm
Some of you guys have some really great pieces! Sadly, I have few warbird relics, and almost everything I have is electronic in nature.
My favorite item is an unmodified BC-348-R radio receiver (complete except for the missing DM-28-R dynamotor). I've started restoring it cosmetically. Once I find that elusive dynamotor, I'll restore the innards and get it working. After that, it will go aboard "Chuckie".
I have a BC-459-A command transmitter which I plan to restore and put on the air on 40 meters. It needs the cabinet repainted, but the front panel is very nice. It definitely needs electrical work. It's been hacked up a bit inside. However, with a lot of time and effort on my part, it'll be back on the air some day.
I have a couple of BC-375-E transmitter tuning units, but they're really ugly and I bought them only to strip for parts ($3.00 each at a hamfest this summer, couldn't pass 'em up!). My junkbox contains all kinds of war-surplus electronic parts, too.
The "pull chain" on the ceiling fan in my hamshack is a 21 inch long "Remove Before Flight" tag from a Maverick missile. I picked it up at a flea market many years ago, along with the red rubber lens cover, for $1.00. I have no idea what happened to the lens cover. I'm guessing it got tossed. Haven't seen it in years.
I have another "Remove Before Flight" tag, about 18" long, with a locking pin attached. We hang it in the passenger compartment of our big block '71 Corvette convertible at car shows, just for grins.
Cheers!
My favorite item is an unmodified BC-348-R radio receiver (complete except for the missing DM-28-R dynamotor). I've started restoring it cosmetically. Once I find that elusive dynamotor, I'll restore the innards and get it working. After that, it will go aboard "Chuckie".
I have a BC-459-A command transmitter which I plan to restore and put on the air on 40 meters. It needs the cabinet repainted, but the front panel is very nice. It definitely needs electrical work. It's been hacked up a bit inside. However, with a lot of time and effort on my part, it'll be back on the air some day.
I have a couple of BC-375-E transmitter tuning units, but they're really ugly and I bought them only to strip for parts ($3.00 each at a hamfest this summer, couldn't pass 'em up!). My junkbox contains all kinds of war-surplus electronic parts, too.
The "pull chain" on the ceiling fan in my hamshack is a 21 inch long "Remove Before Flight" tag from a Maverick missile. I picked it up at a flea market many years ago, along with the red rubber lens cover, for $1.00. I have no idea what happened to the lens cover. I'm guessing it got tossed. Haven't seen it in years.
I have another "Remove Before Flight" tag, about 18" long, with a locking pin attached. We hang it in the passenger compartment of our big block '71 Corvette convertible at car shows, just for grins.
Cheers!
Part's - N - Pieces
Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:42 pm
I have:
A bunch of Zero parts (wing tip, instruments, canopy deck, oil reservoir for A6M2 firewall, canopy, wheel, cockpit fittings)
G4M "Betty" seat
B-52 control wheel
Aichi "Jake" float plane wing tip
A bunch of original control wheel center caps (B-52, B-29, PBM, P-61, DC-4, B-36, B-24 etc)
Japanese 35mm Lewis-type machine gun camera (for training rear gunenrs)
Misc parts and pieces from other aircraft like Hurricane, Me-109, Spitfire, Do-17 and a little piece of a Doolittle B-25 raider "Whiskey Pete" which a relative's uncle flew in during the raid.
I somehow feel closer to history having these pieces around.
DB
A bunch of Zero parts (wing tip, instruments, canopy deck, oil reservoir for A6M2 firewall, canopy, wheel, cockpit fittings)
G4M "Betty" seat
B-52 control wheel
Aichi "Jake" float plane wing tip
A bunch of original control wheel center caps (B-52, B-29, PBM, P-61, DC-4, B-36, B-24 etc)
Japanese 35mm Lewis-type machine gun camera (for training rear gunenrs)
Misc parts and pieces from other aircraft like Hurricane, Me-109, Spitfire, Do-17 and a little piece of a Doolittle B-25 raider "Whiskey Pete" which a relative's uncle flew in during the raid.
I somehow feel closer to history having these pieces around.
DB
Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:24 pm
My only pieces...
Some Wright 1820 sparkplugs....
I have a small guidance panel from a B-52
A Mach Meter, turn and bank indicator from an F-86.
I would love to have a radial jug...but I haven't had the oppurtunity...yet.
(anybody got an extra? )
Some Wright 1820 sparkplugs....
I have a small guidance panel from a B-52
A Mach Meter, turn and bank indicator from an F-86.
I would love to have a radial jug...but I haven't had the oppurtunity...yet.
(anybody got an extra? )
Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:16 am
Tim;
Your tailhook looks just like the one I had and it came off a Skyhawk. I always wanted a tail hook and one day, my insurance agent gave one to me.
(Don't ask me why!) After several years, a good friend, who flew over 100 missions in Viet Nam flying A-4's off the Hancock, became the owner of it as he always wanted one but never got a hook. I HAD to give it to him, as it meant a lot more to him than me. The best thing was that he was flabergasted when I gave it to him, thinking I would never part with such a cool piece.
I loved that hook, but it is where it belongs now.
Jerry
Your tailhook looks just like the one I had and it came off a Skyhawk. I always wanted a tail hook and one day, my insurance agent gave one to me.
(Don't ask me why!) After several years, a good friend, who flew over 100 missions in Viet Nam flying A-4's off the Hancock, became the owner of it as he always wanted one but never got a hook. I HAD to give it to him, as it meant a lot more to him than me. The best thing was that he was flabergasted when I gave it to him, thinking I would never part with such a cool piece.
I loved that hook, but it is where it belongs now.
Jerry
Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:26 am
I have a C-130 Yoke and control wheel with center cap and a C-130 NLG steering wheel.
I'd like to get my hands on a B-29 Center Cap....
I'd like to get my hands on a B-29 Center Cap....
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Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:37 am
Not airplane stuff but I have a couple of blue taxi-way light's I've broken off over the years when I've been driving around the flight-line 
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Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:57 pm
Well,
I dont have much for airplane parts, as I have too many VW parts occupying every inch of available storage I can steal.
I do have quite the collection of t-shirts with warbird droppings though.
I always have to look in those spots that I shouldnt!
I dont have much for airplane parts, as I have too many VW parts occupying every inch of available storage I can steal.
I do have quite the collection of t-shirts with warbird droppings though.
I always have to look in those spots that I shouldnt!
Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:08 am
Hmmmm,
well okay, I'll wade into this one. At one time I had about 1/3 of a T-6G in my garage that I was helping a friend restore. Unfortunately, due to circumstances which resulted in my move East, the project and our long standing friendship ended. So at present I don't have any parts or pieces.
BUT, if there are any Warbird owners out here in or near the Hartford, CT area in need of a pretty fair (yeah my modesty is showing
) mechanic with a bit of warbird experiance under his belt. I'd love to help out.
Just PM me and I'll see what I can do to help,
Paul
well okay, I'll wade into this one. At one time I had about 1/3 of a T-6G in my garage that I was helping a friend restore. Unfortunately, due to circumstances which resulted in my move East, the project and our long standing friendship ended. So at present I don't have any parts or pieces.
BUT, if there are any Warbird owners out here in or near the Hartford, CT area in need of a pretty fair (yeah my modesty is showing
) mechanic with a bit of warbird experiance under his belt. I'd love to help out.
Just PM me and I'll see what I can do to help,
Paul
Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:14 am
Got a corner piece off of the old Bob Guilford F4U-7 Corsair 'Blue Max', probably a gear door or flap corner...not very big, I could fit it on my scanner...apparently some rich kid bought the Corsair from Guilford and took him girlfriend for a ride in it and tried to pull off a loop too low and...well, you knot the rest....but what COULD be used of the plane now lives on in the Lone Star F4U-5 thanks to Nelson Ezell....
Mark
Mark
Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:16 am
Mark,
I remember seeing "Blue Max" at Oshkosh many years ago....from what I remember it was an airshow staple for them back then. Terrible thing when she went down....
Paul
I remember seeing "Blue Max" at Oshkosh many years ago....from what I remember it was an airshow staple for them back then. Terrible thing when she went down....
Paul