By: Oxcart - 27th January 2008 at 21:15
Thanks guys!!- i was thinking about the P-51 – i read somewhere that the Dallas Built ones had a slightly different shaped canopy to the Inglewood ones- i don’t suppose anyone bothers with THAT sort of detail though!!
By: ZRX61 - 27th January 2008 at 21:02
AeroTrader produce their own.
There used to be an old guy down in the middle of LA that did canopies etc in his garage, but apparently he’s dead now. Only went there once to pick up a canopy etc for PA908, thankfully we had a gun or 3 in the truck because the neighbourhood looked like we might have needed them.
Dropping by Chino is far less stressful 🙂
By: Scorpion89 - 27th January 2008 at 16:59
Does anyone happen to know where they are made?- or do restoration companie’s just mold them when required?- never seen an ad for a company that makes them!
Hi Oxcart,
Well it depends on what type your asking about. I know back when the B-17 CoOp started one of the first things they did was take one of the better Top Turrets and ball Turret’s and make molds for a mass production.
I know that the 51 guys there are two folks who/were making D model Glass and the extended for the TP versions.
I know when we still owned our old B-25 I contacted Aero Trader for all the Glass we need I’m not sure if they have a huge stock of NOS or if they are producing their own.
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January 27, 2008 at 3:58 pm