Cockpit bullet-proof glass?
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T Bolt
Colonel
Just going by the shape it looks like it might be from a Hawaker Hurricane
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Benevolens Magister
Looks similar to a Hurricane screen, could also be from a turret, such as that on the Avenger.
Crimea_River
Marshal
I don't think it's from a Hurricane. Here's a Hurricane windscreen with seal on. Note the angled intersection between the curved top and sides. don't have the dimensions.
The overall thickness is consistent with the bullet resistant glass made by the British. I can't find details of the construction (I have them somewhere), but it sounds about right.
As for the aircraft, I think the shape is wrong for the suggested Hurricane, on which there was more of a taper towards the top. The sides on yours look almost parallel. It is the right sort of size for an 'armoured' windscreen on something.
Glass like that was produced for a long time after the war too.
Cheers
Steve
As for the aircraft, I think the shape is wrong for the suggested Hurricane, on which there was more of a taper towards the top. The sides on yours look almost parallel. It is the right sort of size for an 'armoured' windscreen on something.
Glass like that was produced for a long time after the war too.
Cheers
Steve
daveT
Senior Airman
It is from a TBM Avenger Turret. photo of 3 TBM turret glass pieces that I recovered.
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Thanks for all the replies! That its from a TBM Avenger is the most likely. A company called TBM Inc. at Sequoia Field north of Visalia, CA, converted TBMs to fire fighting planes in the 1950s. Sequoia Field was one of several WWII pilot and crew training bases in central California.
