Recent content by Markeight

Interesting - I've not heard of this before and couldn't find anything by googling it (not sure I was searching correctly), do you have a reference/website you can point me too?

Thanks all for your input - I have contacted the owner this morning to say it cannot be confirmed as a training round and there is far too much potential for this to be a safety issue to keep it, he has agreed to hand it in to police for appropriate disposal (whether he does or not is another...

Hi all, I was shown this item on the weekend just been, its very clearly a fired 20mm Hispano-Suiza shell and I'm trying to figure out whether or not it's dangerous to get the owner to get rid of it - they are adamant its a ball projectile from a training range and not HEI so are not keen to...

Thank you Shinpachi and Wurger, this has confirmed my suspicions. I was a bit baffled by the ID I was provided at the time - especially having seen the wing on the more complete Zero (image attached) not 20m from the one photographed some 2 minutes earlier!

Hi all Just wondering if anyone can give me a positive ID on this wing, I took a photo of it at the Kokopo War Museum on New Britain when I visited last year. I spoke to someone on site at the time who told me what it was from, initially I had thought it was from a Zero but he told me it had...

Fantastic, anything you can provide is greatly appreciated!

Awesome - thanks! Thanks so much, even if you don't find them what you have posted so far is fantastic

Hi all, new here. Thanks for posting this manual - fantastic! Just wondering if there was anywhere that had the foldouts from this manual, seems a couple of them are illustrations of sections of the plane I need for trying to identify components in wrecks. Thanks again for posting this...

Nope, definitely a Zeke, here's some of the other bits of it :) Can't figure out what model it is, pretty broken up and my ID skills aren't that good - any suggestions greatly appreciated!! External starboard side of fuselage with wing root Internal starboard side wall of cockpit with...

Hi Shinpachi, thanks for your welcome and the information. The JIS information sounds like it might be right to me, I've had a look around the web for other information on Japanese inspection stamps and have only come across images of a few examples, but most I've seen have been of the 17 in a...

Hi all, first time poster so go easy.... I've been seeking answers to this question around the 'net but to no avail; I am wondering if anyone on this forum knows anything about inspection stamps on components of Japanese aircraft from World War Two, as I am having trouble confirming some...