Warbird Information Exchange

well...as of the 9th, I have TBM grease permanently embedded in my wedding dress guess that's what happens when you get married in a hangar full of airworthy planes.
on the other hand....it's totally appropriate!

lets see....

B-17 back door
FG-1D wing rib signed by Cook Cleland
FG-1D Stick grips
ME-109 Armored Front Glass
B-25 tail gunners glass
R-1830 Cracked Jug
B-17 Cowl Flap actuator Panel
B-17 Turbo control
B-17 Flap indicator
Pitot from a P-51D
Stearman Wood Prop


still collecting...trying to send home the B-17 bit by bit...

Jim Harley

I ruined my Air Force Service dress jacket on a B-29 earlier this year. Not as big a deal as a wedding dress but I thought it was an interesting parallel.

While on the topic of weddings: Between one of my weddings and leaving for the honeymoon, my brother and I went out for a little bull riding. My wife wasn't impressed when I pulled my groin muscle pretty bad. Wedding night perfomance is severly hampered when that happens!

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Brad

I guess that my favourite piece off a warbird would be one of the covers for the staking points off of Spitfire Mk IXc ser#MK923. I have numerous other momentos from the 22 years I spent with 923 such as a wartime propeller blade, a mainwheel tyre, a tailwheel tyre (spitfires have "tyres"), and numerous bits and pieces from inside the cockpit, but the staking cover is my favourite because it is always with me. I keep it on my key ring.
Cheers
Bob S.

With 300 wrecks , approx 15 basket cases and 200,00 parts ranging from WW1 - WW2 , I wouldn't know where to begin picking my favourite.

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...it was a plane adrift beneath the moon moving serenely thru beams like an angel of the night .....fair as a song ........aloof from mortal dreams

I guess one of my neat pieces is a B-29 Forward Bombay Hatch. It's in great condition and I was hoping to mount it on the wall with a light box behind it lighting a photo of the Bell X-1 shackled up in the bombay. You would be able to look through the small window and see the X-1 ready for flight.
It's been 9 years and I still haven't fixed it up yet!
Jerry

Now I couldn't just let this statement go by without further investigation... 300 wrecks, and 15 basket cases?!!! That sounds like something which should be in a thread by itself. Any chance you could share some photos, or at least a list of some of the more significant airframes in your collection? I am extremely curious, as are many of the others I am sure!

Cheers, Richard

Not quite Mark. Bob's partner Marshall Moss was at the controls and it was an airshow volunteer from Brown Field in the backseat. Moss was hardly a young kid. Anyway, the rest of the story is true, he did do a loop too low and failed to recover, as far as I can recall.

Airdales...............that would be cool as hell!!!!!! One of my projects that I never did was a P&W985 lamp. Imagine a line sitting on top of the crank, and go straight back, I was going to make from there up a lamp with a riveted sheetmetal lamp shade, had all the baffles and intake tubes and covers. They sat around until I donated them to the cause when my uncle up'd his collection of Beech 18's from 1 to 3. 2 of the cylinders that I got from the A&P school that I attended, checked out as good and were OVH.

Somewhere I had pics of a guys kitchen table...........a complete 985 laying on its back with glass cut for the nose to stick through and the glass laying on the cowl brakcets...........Was awsome!!

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Badmouthing Stearmans on WIX since 2005

Sorry! Double entry!
Jerry

The biggest problem is finding a photo of the X-1 as veiwed from the door position. It has to be just right, and preferably in color to make it work well. I could colorize a Black & White one if I had to.

A friend of mine has a B-24 main landing gear wheel and tire and 2 B-25 main wheels and tires that he cleaned up and Armour-all-ed. He then laid them on there sides and put round glass table tops over them. They are now really a neat coffee table and two end tables in his "I-Love-Me-Room"!

I would love to find a DC-3 being scrapped and take a 12 foot section, from the top to the floor, of just one side home. Then make a half of an airliner up against the wall, with windows that have light boxes and aerial photos of Earth, and four sets of seats, facing eachother with a fold up table inbetween. It would be great for entertaining my flying buddies and the grandkids would have a ball!
Jerry

I still think that feller with the girl in the helicopter wins

I WANT TO HEAR MORE ABOUT THE 300 BASKET CASES & 200 THOUSAND PARTS TOO!! ARE YOU THE WALT SOPLATA OF CANADA??

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

bump................
anyone got new stuff?
I've got a P-38L-5 data plate

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Don't touch my junk!!

I have a gun site from an F-86F and an antenna from a UH-1 being scrapped at Fort Bliss

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Zane Adams
There I was at 20,000 ft, upside down and out of ammunition.
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