What's your best piece off a warbird

[Dan Johnson II]

I have a piece of cockpit glass from a B24 that went down over Vienna February 14, 1945. I spend a number of years researching the crew and in the course of that came across the pilot and co-pilot of the B24 directly behind and below the one that went down. When the flak shell went off in the cockpit, it blew the cockpit glass out. The debris came back and hit the windshield of the following 24 knocking out one of the panals. The co-pilot kept a chunk of the debris from the preceeding 24 and gave it to me when I was doing the research.

Dan

[Jack Cook]

Bob Vrilakas of the 94th FS gave me a Hat-in-the Ring pin his crew chief made for him from shattered plexi that a ME-109 shot out of his P-38Hs canopy in a dogfight over Sicily.

[Tulio]

Hi!


A pilot's checklist from a Guatemalan Air Force's F-51D.

I used to own a control stick / grip from a Guatemalan F-51D, but it disappeared from my collection a long time ago.

A weight and balance sliding rule / calculator from the Guatemalan Air Force's Douglas C-47 "505"

I have little in the way of warbird parts, but two of my best kept pieces are:

A gunsight from a former Honduran Air Force's F-4U5 Corsair.

A gunsight from a former Honduran Air Force's T-28.

A piston from an Allison engine, from a P-38, former Honduran Air Force.

And just for the heck of it, I have the armament control box from an F-4 Phantom.

Saludos!


Tulio

[krlang]

Hmmm,

I have an oil spot on every t-shirt I have worn to an airshow too!

[corsair166b]

I have a small piece from Bob Guilford's old F4U-7 Corsair 'Blue Max' which was being used for parts for the Lone Star F4U-5 restoration, just a small torn piece of skin from a corner somewhere....some kid bought the plane from Guilford and took his girlfriend up for a spin I'm told and did a loop that wound up being too shallow...and the plane went straight into the ground. Tragic.

M

[bentwingbomber]

i have an elevator hinge from the planes of fame super corsair


small,but it's been faster than most other pieces mentioned!

[Swiss Mustangs]

well

a dataplate from a Swiss AF P-51D-20-NA (scrapped 1959) plus the workable Fairchild N-6 gun-camera, blinker (oxygen-flow indicator), pitot-tube and armament-switchbox taken out of that same a/c

a coolant tank armour plate (the one between propeller and coolant tank) from a P-51D that crashlanded in France in 1944

an engine-dataplate plus many other identifiable parts from another Swiss AF P-51D-20-NA (crashed in 1951)

Martin

[Paul Patist]

Jack,

Sorry for the litle errors, was tired when posting...in touch with his next of kin who provided his picture for:

http://www.cebudanderson.com/357thkia.htm

Take care,

Paul

[Forgotten Field]

A few pieces I have in my collection... and that could be in your collection...<p>

Okay, to name a few that are pretty important to me...
Large pieces of a Stinson L5 bolted together and that I manage to fly once in a while...
B26 Marauder Engine Cowling
Martin PBM engine cowling (never used, original paint)
Flight Engineer's Panel from a B29
Tail Turret from a B24D Liberator


And the piece I love the most, because it reminds me of the most important part of a WWII aircraft- Robert Scott's Blood Chit. He sent it to the man who got him into West Point as a thank you for all his support. He mailed it in an envelope in October 1942, which is when he commanded the 23rd Fighter Group. The letter he sent came with it. It is a very simple letter, devoid of any bragging, just telling how things were going where he was (and not unveiling too much). Absolutely priceless....

[gary]

I have part of a JG-26 109 downed during battle of britain and spitfire parts from same period, I also framed a battle of britain art print with a board I got from the remains of the pilots hut at Hawkinge which is depicted in the art. Also an inert .50 round from a 56th FG aces aircraft.
gary

[Digger]

OK, here we go.............

Front Canopy-windscreen frame for Bf109G
P-40 part tag recovered from crash site of A29-117
FW190 Horizon gauge recovered from Russian wreck
Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot goggles (claimed by my father during WW2)
Areo Engine log book for A27-310
Japanese data plate recovered from Australian dump site.

Those are about the special ones........

Digger

[oscardeuce]

1.)An AK-47 bullet from the left tailboom of my O2.

2.)Pictures of combat damage to my O2 during its service at Phan Theit.

3.)The uniform, dog tags and headset from Raven 20 who flew my O2-A as Boron 01.

4.)Tail rotor blades from Huey 992,(hope to have the whole bird flying this year!)

[airnutz]

Most of my goodies were lost in a flood of a min-storage and subsequent
looting years ago. So my bits now are an L-2 rib, aluminum seat of a WW2
vintage aircraft...presumably from a trainer-type which I found in a barn
a coupla miles north of Randolph AFB ages ago. My favorite is, like
Elwyn's, smudged with grease... of the tailrotor gearbox grade..it's a
Vietnam-veteran white technicians jacket with large red cursive script
embroidered across the back Air America.

[Owen Miller]

I have some fragments of aluminum skin from the kamikaze that hit the

Enterprise in May 1945. Also have a length of shroud line from the pilot's

chute. Never thought a kamikaze pilot would have been wearing a 'chute.

[m50a1ontos]

Well lurking out in the garage...

two sets of C-47/DC-3 pilot/co-pilot seats
A box or two of various instruments
A NOS F-86 inst panel
Big box for rigging the fire control system in a B-29

Various odds and sods F-86 related, coolers, that sort of thing.