Re-used a/c parts

[nuuumannn]

Yep, He obviously didn't use it on the Anson, but kept it anyways. I gave it to Don McKenzie, who rebuilt Bill's engines. Bill's promised me a ride in the Anson for it. I've yet to collect.

 

[nuuumannn]

This is half a Rolls-Royce Kestrel modified for powerboat use. It's in a local motor museum.

Powerboat engine

 

[gumbyk]

Yep, He obviously didn't use it on the Anson, but kept it anyways. I gave it to Don McKenzie, who rebuilt Bill's engines. Bill's promised me a ride in the Anson for it. I've yet to collect.

They may have used it as a template. That's one piece that you need 100% confidence in the condition of.

 

[Kingscoy]

Here is another one...discovered by a Belgium Recovery Group (www.Luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be) I do like these finds, proving there is still a lot to be discovered again. This group found a part of B17 Tailfin used as a chicken shed and a large wing part still in use as a fence. They ID'd the a/c with the full story on their website.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

The past is alive.

 

[Kingscoy]

One from our own collection. Shown on the photo the sadly very corroded tail end part of a Me109G-6. Hope it is visible but if you look at the tailwheel tyre you can see that the running surface was cut away. Local people have used that for repairing their shoe soles after the war and dumped the a/c parts in a ditch afterwards.

 

[daveT]

Consolidated PBY Catalina Houseboat

 

[Kingscoy]

Brilliant!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Kingscoy]

 

[Wurger]

 

[vikingBerserker]

That awesome!

 

[Kingscoy]

Currently on sale on Ebay...a bench saw with aircraft wheels.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Odd tread for Aircraft tires...

 

[Kingscoy]

300L German drop tank cano conversion. Doubt if you will be able to stay upright. The man I got it from years ago found it in September 1944 and didn't turn it in as ordered by the Germans back then. He told me that he made a cano of it after the war and had great fun with it.

 

[vikingBerserker]

That's pretty cleaver

 

[seesul]

Our villagers who lived close to the B-17Gs crash sites re-used the parts very often. Aluminium sheets for a roof covering or for producing wash machine propellers, rubber from the tyres for the shoe heels, machine guns and even one 20 mm cannon (from a field modification of the tail) as a building foundation reinforcement and I remember the case when an oxygen tank was used as a boiler for burning slivovice (plum brandy). Most practical re-use I guess
And that shirt in a background was made of parachute of one of the crew members of B-17G 42-38096 "Big Time"....

 

[Kingscoy]

Great info
In Holland during and shortly after the war many pretty girls married in a dress made from a parachute.

 

[seesul]

Correct, also here.