What's the coolest piece of aviation-related junk you've got hanging around?

[VNugget]

My T6

http://www.globalbuzz-sa.com/gallery/files/1/6/harv_c-fxsa.jpg

Hardly "junk" but almost 65 years since she first flew...and I was out in her today.

PFM!

NOT FAIR!

 

[Floyd R. Turbo]

My Grandfather's A-2 jacket, cloth helmet, and scarf made from a silk parachute

My Dad's G-1 jacket

Dash 1s, checklists, and flight manuals from all the airplanes I've flown (except the A-model tanker. Those admin guys at Castle were tenacious)

My "custom fit" pressure suit gloves. They didn't fit worth a **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**, but they have my name on 'em.

Various signed and unsigned books and artwork, the neatest of which is probably "Fighter Command," by Jeff Ethell and Robert Sand, about American fighters in England during WWII. All of the pictures are original color, and it's signed by the authors, as well as pilots Red McColpin, Chuck Yeager, Bud Anderson, Gabby Gabreski, Robert Johnson, and Hub Zemke. Also a copy of "Zemke's Stalag," signed by Hub.

Pictures galore, taken all over

Other stuff I can't think of right now

 

[trip]

B-24 ammunition feed chain from one of the guns

B-17 engine cowling

 

[redd]

I’ve got an autographed copy of Stick and Rudder by the author, Wolfgang Langewiesche.

Also, a friend of his gave me Wolfgang’s copy of the POH for the first Corsair, which Wolfgang helped to write when he worked for Chance-Vought during WWII as a production test pilot and the original test pilot for the Corsair.

I also have many old Air Facts magazine's from 1938-1970's, it's great to have reminders of the early days of aviation.