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

[FastCargo]

Let's see...

- Painting of an XB-70 with TB-58 escort, signed by Fitz Fulton, main test pilot for the XB-70

- A piece of the XB-70 AV2 after she crashed

- Pictures either of me flying or taken by me while flying, including:
-- T-38 flying over the USAF Academy
-- T-38 flying over Parlament in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
-- T-38 flying over Crater Lake, OR
-- T-38 flying over Mt. Rainer, WA
-- T-38 taking off from Boeing Field, WA with 747 #1 under it
-- B-1B flying high speed in TX, forming a cloud around it

- My old flying helmet from my active duty days

- Models...lots of them...all in 1/72 scale...

- Pictures, of a 1/10 scale T-38 stolen from a squadron bar, and repainted (by me) in our local squadron colors and decals and hung up in our bar... We had to give it back after the Wing Commander we appropriated it from threatened OSI... No sense of humor those AETC guys...

- I'll think of more in a minute...

FastCargo

 

[Spooky 1]

A picture of a Locheed P38, that was signed by all of the test pilots who were flying for Locheed in those days. Many autographs of pilots who would later become legends in the early days of SETP. Sammy Mason. Tony Levier, Herman (Fish) Salmon, Milo Burchem to name a few. Appraised at $5,000 for donation puposes.

 

[LearAv8r]

Let me see...not too much

-Autographed copy of Return of the Enola Gay. (Paul Tibbits)

-Framed SWA 737-300 print, looks pretty cool

-Old set of Jr. flight attandent wings from United

-Old set of Eastern Airlines Capt wings.

-A medallion (sp) from Eastern that supposedly has all the different types of aircraft and parts of some spaceship that Frank Borman was in. I think that was from the 30 anniversary or something like that

-Unused barf bag

-Framed Learjet poster

-a bunch of models, challenger 601,Lears, SA-227 blah blah blah

-Part of the tail fabric from a J-3 that I soloed in and eventually a friend of mine crashed in.

-bunch of old manual from BE-18, DC-3, DC-8, blah blah blah

never realized how much junk I actually saved. neat thread though

Lear-

 

[rchcfi]

I bought a row of United Airlines 737-200 coach seats off E-bay and planted them in my living room..Quite a conversation starter when guests come over.

But nothing outdoes a friend of mine who has painstakingly put togehter (over MANY years) a complete B-707 panel with working lights and all.

 

[jknight8907]

Lessee. I have a 3-view technical drawing of a D3, a bunch of historical lithographs, a set of framed aviation postcards, a pen drawing of a Stearman, a charcoal drawing of a Sopwith Camel, a rough model of a generic biplane, and a cheezy poster of Howard Hughes' planes taken from an Air & Space.

I'd like to have a wood or AL prop, and I was looking at this on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=40051&item=6515683694&rd=1

 

[Mevans]

My father was a Naval Aviator and was instructing in a Stearman in rural Indiana in December, 1943. While doing inverted spins, the upper wing departed the a/c. he hit the silk and survives to this day. The a/c was located in a field nearby and he went over and cut out the fabric section on the fuselage around the words "NAVY". It hangs on my wall.

 

[Bill Mostellar]

Very Old Fahlin Wooden Propellor - Cloth tips, then leading edge covered.
WWII Leather Flight Helmet - Navy, I think
My Helmet from the Air Force
Extra Oxygen Mask that I contaminated in the T-37 (I thought it would never smell right again)
Old "Delta" sign from the Memphis Airport
Pressure Relief plug from the brakes I overheated in the Air Force

 

[mattfish42]

Large wad of plastic ribbon from Patty Wagstaff's inverted ribbon cut at Oshkosh a couple years ago, along with a button reading: "I held a pole for Patty!"

 

[limodriver1]

I got 747 as my carage!

 

[User546]

I bought a row of United Airlines 737-200 coach seats off E-bay and planted them in my living room.

I always wanted to do something like that! I once found three Gulfstream seats (the nice large plush leather kind) that had been removed during an interior remodel, and I tried buying one of them from the guy so I could make an office chair out of it, or use it for a nice sitting chair in my office. However he wanted to keep them as a set, and I never did talk him out of one.

So if any of you out there ever hears about anything like that... shoot your ole buddy User over a PM...