What's your best piece off a warbird

Hal B · **Posted:** Fri May 08, 2009 9:44 am

Oh key-wrap, the bottom just dropped out of the canopy market :shock:

And I thought the stock-market crash was bad

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11330

So just out of curiosity, have you counted them?

famvburg · **Joined:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:41 am **Posts:** 540

I have a wooden control stick from a Stearman. My dad had it & I'm not sure where he got it from. Otherwise, every time I see this subject, I think of the time when I was 17 & she was 15 & this Corsair that used to be hangared here...................

retroaviation · **Posted:** Fri May 08, 2009 2:45 pm

bdk wrote:

So just out of curiosity, have you counted them?

I'll let him answer as well, but Chunks just dropped off one or two or twelve canopies over here at my place last week, and he said he thought he had around 300 canopies total. :shock:

Gary

retroaviation · **Posted:** Fri May 08, 2009 2:49 pm

famvburg wrote:

I have a wooden control stick from a Stearman. My dad had it & I'm not sure where he got it from. Otherwise, every time I see this subject, I think of the time when I was 17 & she was 15 & this Corsair that used to be hangared here...................

You know, that's what's cool about collecting this old stuff...and this thread. The memories associated with even one or two little parts is pretty neat. Obviously, some items mean more than others, but each one has a story. :-)

Gary

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:21 pm

BUMP

TAdan · **Posted:** Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:24 pm

My latest acquisitions, courtesy of the MAAM's P-61 project.

Two pieces from the horizontal stabilizer.

There is also a piece of skin in the picture frame.

WIXerGreg · **Posted:** Sun Jul 05, 2009 7:31 pm

Wow, not every day I find a thread I can contribute to!

Going around the room...

- Clip on ammo can for flexible .50
- N-6 gun camera
- Two pairs of crew headphones
- various gauges
- T-6 control surface fabric
- Partial N-14 gunsight
- R-3350 piston
- Merlin piston from CAF Minnesota wing P-51C "Tuskegee Airmen"
- R-1820 spark plug
- R-3350 spark plug from Fifi
- P-40 skin
- B-25 skin
- skin from the movie Memphis Belle
- R-985 cylinder
- R-985 magneto in original sealed box dated 1941
- R-2600 cylinder from CAF Minnesota wing B-25J "Miss Mitchell"
- B-17 intake valve
- Control surface fabric from PV-2 Harpoon "Hot Stuff"
- "Hot Stuff" spark plug
- "Hot Stuff" intake and exhaust valves
- "Hot Stuff" piston
- Ol 927 skin
- FIFI skin
Greg

Avn-Tech · **Joined:** Fri May 22, 2009 11:00 am **Posts:** 116

Group,

I see some you have some nice parts as souveniers. among the aviation artifacts in my collection are the following:

Peice of the XB-49, with part number
original NASA copy of X-15 crash report
Skins/armor and prop parts removed from a spitfire during restoration
Autographed aviation book collection (approx 30 books)
Approx 10K original aircraft manuals & Blueprints
approx 25K R-2800 air deflectors, in original packing
approx 10K R-2800 Valve covers, in original packing
misc NOS, R-3350 parts
2 ea, J-79 shipping containers full of new surplus F-86/F-100 parts
approx 25 sets of as removed F-100 brake assemblies
1 ea, J-47 in shipping can
F-86 Gun Blast panel
set of F-86H gun blast panels
original, T-28 parts and manufacturing fixtures
Cowlings from air racer Mike
Parts from XB-47 crash site
Parts from F4U crash site
Flight gear collection WW I - Current
2 ea, BT-13 rebuild projects
2 ea, PT-19 rebuild projects
2 ea, L-5 rebuild projects
1 ea, Yak-52 rebuild project (Minor Repairs)
1 ea, F-5F crash recovery
1 ea, 1/2 scale F4U project
6 ea, full scale P-40 movie props (need props and canopies)
3 ea, full scale P-40 movie props (partial projects)

These are just the things that I can remember off the top of my head, I know there are more things hiding in the corners of my hangers.

Laterrrrr
Avn-Tech

whistlingdeath77 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:42 pm

ive got a fully intacted drop tank off an f4u-1d corsair with original paint and stickers on it

Airlift48 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 744

Avn-Tech wrote:

Group,

I see some you have some nice parts as souveniers. among the aviation artifacts in my collection are the following:

1 ea, J-47 in shipping can

Laterrrrr
Avn-Tech

Wasn't there someone a few weeks ago looking for a J-47?

Second Air Force · **Posted:** Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:20 pm

Thanks for the heads-up Kevin. I have been doing some research on my Sabre engine situation.

Scott

K5DH · **Posted:** Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:43 pm

Since I first contributed to this thread back in 2006, I've acquired a few more things:

- A piece of skin from LB-30 Diamond Lil (thanks, Gary!).
- An R-1820 piston from #3 engine of B-17G Chuckie.
- An R-2600 piston from #2 engine of B-25J Pacific Prowler.
- A few Wright engine spark plugs and valve springs.
- A WW2 German telegraph key (made by Junkers).
- More U.S. military radio items, including three more BC-348 receivers, four more command transmitters and one mounting rack, four more telegraph keys, and some war surplus tubes and small parts.

Still not much compared to some of you guys, but it's better than nothing.

Cheers!

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:38 pm

Bump Part Deux

viking73 · **Posted:** Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:51 am

I've got a couple of pieces of F-105B Thuderchief 57-5789 that Gary gave me.

One piece is a broken off radome latch and the other is the spine formation light access cover complete with the smashed plexiglass. He was just going to skin over the hole in the spine and said he didn't need it so it was my souvenir to have if I wanted it. I'll take some photos and post them today or tomorrow...

-Derek

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