What's your best piece off a warbird

[M MAKI]

My stash consists of;
- An RCAF Sperti MKII astro compass. Last serviced Nov 18, 1952
- A Spitfire triple brake gauge!!
- An RCAF Harvard ASI. With a red hand painted mark on the glass indicating 275MPH.
- An RCAF Harvard oil seperator, cracked at pipe, tagged removed from service 1/4/57 from a/c Harvard MKIV 20219. Where did this bird go?
- A Mig clock (Epay special) but still cool to me.

Oh and my collection of Jack Cook Spitfire pictures!

[retroaviation]

Gary, you win with all your cool "stuff". But I think that C-97 nose is just too cool. Would make a cool living room for a house!

Heck Nathan, this ain't no contest. I rather enjoying seeing what everyone else has in their personal collections, whether it be cool data plates or bits & pieces off of airplanes. I have some neat stuff here, but it's nowhere near as cool as what many other WIXers have. After about 15 minutes of walking around my place, you'd be bored. There's really not as much here as what I think most folks imagine. (But it is kind of fun to play with the few things that are here though. )

Gary

[JimH]

lets see...
1. Piece of the Shenandoah and Fabric
2. Corsair stick grips from Goodyear
3. Fabric from Goodyear Aircraft
4. B-17 cowl flap panel...brand new
5. R-1830 Jug and piston
6. Turbo Control from a B-17
7. B-17 Rear Crew Door
8. FG-1D wing rib...signed by Cook Cleland and Archie Donahue
9. P-51 Pitot Tube
10. ME-109 parts from my Liberated by my Grandfather
11. Tons of B-17 and B-24 cockpit instruments
12. Fabric from the "dragon" and "909" (hail damage)
13. SBD instrument Panel
14. Stearman Primer
15. IFF lights

geez I can't remember everything...plus tons of WWII flight gear

jim

[p51]

I have a piece of flak recovered from a 91st BG B-17 in 1944. The melted aluminum skin of the aircraft itself covers one side of it, so I have the only known piece of that particular aircraft. I don't have a photo of that piece saved online, but here's a photo of a safety pin pulled from a bomb on that mission off that aircraft, as well as the flare gun dropped by the RAF with a raft from when they ditched the same plane the following mission:

I also have part of the national insignia off of the wing of a crashed B-17. Someone picked over the scattered remains of it in the middle of nowhere and gave it to me at a show. He had a ruck sack filled with parts from the crash scene. I need to get a photo of that online as it's obvious what it is, even though it's a small piece, about 10-14 inches or so.
I lso have a very small sliver of rusted metal from the frame of the Hindenburg.

[Jerry O'Neill]

I've only got a few things...nothing too big.

Wooden SNV rudder and aileron
Waco 10 wing rib
B-29 Bombay access pressure door
Piece of Metal from B-24A "Ole 927" via Gary!
AT-9 NOS Throttle Quadrant
Wright 1830 Valve
Corsair Airspeed indicator
Skyraider Tach
2 Elgin A-11, 8 Day Clocks
2 nut plates from P-38 "Glacier Girl"
M-8 Flare Pistol and flares
B-17G wing taper pin
Trench art photo frame made from aluminum and plexiglas from B-26
B-17/24/29 Navigators Desk lamps
ADF Loop (football)
B-50 Propeller Blade
Ole Fahlin wooden prop
Fairchild Gun Camera
Fabric from Standard J-1 (Waldo Pepper's bird)
Radio Direction Finder control panel, gauge and a/c intercom boxes
Very small P-47 pieces from Crash Site

Always on the look out for more!
Jerry

[Jack Cook]

A piece of F4U-1A #9 of VF-17 Jolly Rogers after ''Beads'' Popp crash landed with battle damaged at Torokina upon returning from a mission to Rabaul Jan 1944.

[Chunks]

Wouldn't say it was my best or favorite piece, but it certainly has an interesting story.



Chunks

[airmanual]

Central instrument panel from B-17F "Wulf hound", the first B-17 to fall intact in German hands and extensively used by them.

Laurent

[Fleet16b]

Off the top of my head

Engine data plate from the firewall of a MK 18 Spitfire( a/c still exists)
4 Lanc firewalls and engine mounts
various Lanc Interior racks and panels.
2 WWI Canadian Jenny Props
I set WWI Canadian Jenny skis and tail skid ski
1 Cornell basket case with data plate plus many spares
2 Ranger engine cores plus spares
ww2 photo recon camera
Tigermoth skis + tail ski
Auster skis + tail ski
Lots of Kinner engine parts
Lots of Fleet Finch parts
Airworthy 1940 Fleet Finch 16r
Anson Props from all marks
Tigermoth prop
Crane cowls
Harvarg landing gear and exhaust
Auster tail planes
Chipmunk parts ( Canadian)
Beech 18 door and cowls
Many many original vintage manuals.

Thats just the tip of the iceberg

[Fleet16b]

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

Not quite in Mr Soplata's league.
A friend of mine spent his life buying and selling a/c and parts.
Mostly small a/c Cubs Champs etc . He also aquired much military stuff over the years (1953- 2005).
When he passed way, I was left to continue the business.
I am constantly selling and have approx 20 good basket cases left ( 300 was a miss type) only one military one left , a Cornell and still have at least 200,000 parts.
The military items go rather quickly at times but not as fast a the civie stuff.

[Django]

Here's my list.

Lots of gauges but the stand out is a B-26 Fuel Gauge.

Recognition lights.

C-119 doors (two of them)

B-25 cowling panel

small piece of skin from Diamond Lil skin

small piece of skin from the MAAM P-61 plus a 5"x7" piece of skin as well

Ranger engine

Some kind of old tire from a trainer

7' wood Fahlin propellor.

[lmritger]

Central instrument panel from B-17F "Wulf hound", the first B-17 to fall intact in German hands and extensively used by them.

Laurent

Hoooooooooooooly sh.........



It IS "Wulf Hound"- S/N 41-24585, right there on the radio call sign placard. How on earth did you wind up with this, Laurent? Are there any other pieces of the aircraft in existence?

There's an awful lot of cool stuff being posted here, but this is definitely one of the coolest.

Lynn

[airmanual]

Hoooooooooooooly sh.........



It IS "Wulf Hound"- S/N 41-24585, right there on the radio call sign placard. How on earth did you wind up with this, Laurent? Are there any other pieces of the aircraft in existence?

There's an awful lot of cool stuff being posted here, but this is definitely one of the coolest.

Lynn

Yes it is! Found in a flea market in Germany around 2 years ago. The seller explained it was found during a military clean-up operation in an ex military base close to Berlin around 4 years ago. There were quite a few other aircraft parts recovered but he could only save this one and a few other French and russian aircrafts parts (mostly pneumatic equipment). The rest was scrapped.

We just have to keep searching and looking !! As a few examples :

- A J2M Raiden stick grip found in a flea market in NY 6 months ago
- Quite a few WWI French and German propellers bought in flea markets in Belgium during the last 2 years. Unfortunately most of them had been "restored"
- Boxes and boxes of WWII US and GB aircrafts instruments for free from a retired aircraft instrument repair-man
- ...

Laurent
Belgium

[mike furline]

One of my favorites is a Japanese Navy Type 98 Model 1 Gunsight.

Revi 3c
Revi 16A
Revi 16B
Revi C/12D
Piece of Corsair wreckage
Elgin 37500 Chrono. from PBM

[M MAKI]

So Chunks what is the story?