What do you collect?

Suppose my identity gives it away…..anything Harvard…….gave my Dad some lovely Mk.IIB cloches for his garden a few years ago!!

Martin

I collect British post war cockpit instrument panels, RAF or RN.

My collection involves flying kit, ie masks,googles,gloves, flight suit some of which I use when flying ! Got hooked on the die cast models as well mostly Corgi.

I am going to start putting up my collection of aviation books , postcards,photos and some aircraft parts on ebay soon.
Will be starting tonight with British research and development aircraft book by Ray Sturtivant . and a 1969 Lightning tie,look under seller garlor5

Whitley Photos! 🙂

I collect memories – other people’s. (mine have long gone 😀 )

Mostly relating the Short Brothers, their factories and aircraft. In the process I’ve ended up with a collection of photographs and a few other bits such as cigarette lighters – well Britain’s aircraft industry made more lighters than aeroplanes 🙂

Sadly some of the people I’ve met have gone so a concern is where to (eventually) donate it so that it is 1. accessible to everybody and 2 protected safely for the future.

Diesel Locomotives …….

……. ooops, wrong forum!! 😀

My stuff

I’ll throw in here too! My true passion is a combination of old Francis-Barnett motorbikes (I currently have four including the one my Great-Grandfather bought new in 1953) FB literature, sales accessories…but more to the climate of this thread:

1) RCAF Avro Lancaster MK. X – anything and everything, collection includes photos, adverts, manuals, old and new plastic and metal kits, instruments, RR engine bits, cameras & accessories, STORIES from those who served AND the big project – complete cockpit/nose section replica of KB882
2) Canadian built and ex TCA Avro Lancastrian photos, time schedules, manuals
3) WW2 to pre 1968 RCAF aircraft photos, manuals, log books, training literature, props, uniforms, mess dinnerware…etc

There’s a bit more info on the links below.

Cheers – Troy

http://www.spitfirearms.com/museum.html
http://www.lancaster-kb882.freeservers.com/photo5.html

Collecting advertisements of the EDO Float company (College Point, L.I., NY, 1925 – 1965) and everything concerning the deHavilland DH-114 Heron (especially pictures).

Martin

Welcome. Have fun!

Can’t store the children instead? Pity.

I thought there were special places you could do that. Called ‘schools’ or something?

Welcome. Have fun!

Most things in storage at the moment due to young children.

Can’t store the children instead? Pity.

Hi all,

I thought this was an appropriate thread for a first post!

Collecting is the bane of my (wife’s?) life. I started out a few years ago with helmets and flight gear, then moved on to instruments, sticks etc., models, finally cockpits (well, just the one). Most things in storage at the moment due to young children.

Good to see lots of other lunatics out there!

Anything and evrything connected to the De Havilland company:

Books
AP’s
Ephemera
Misc parts
err, Vampires… 🙂

Bruce

How much??

Free to a good home.

PM your address and I’ll post it to you.

WA$.

Some Blackburn Skua ‘artwork’ for XN923.

Oooooh!!!!!!!!!!

Luvverly.

How much??

I collect manufacturers models…premade and painted designed for desk display. Most are postwar American…my rarest is a metal 1/72 Douglas C-124 Globemaster II and a Japanese made metal tail boom Bell 47/H-13/Souix. My only UK designed aircraft are a large AW Argosy and a Martin built Canberra. My current total is about 30. I’m always on the lookout for more but ebay has increased prices to the realm of silliness.

Also, autographed aviation books ranging from the famous:Orville Wright, Charles Lindbergh, Jimmy Doolittle, Mustang ace Don Gentile, Neil Armstrong, to the slightly less so…Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan, Tex Johnston, Adolph Galland, and our very own JDK…his excellent book on the Lysander.

Many of you already know that I collect pretty much anything to do with wartime cockpit equipment, hence control columns, rudder pedals, throttle quadrants, instrument panels, instruments, switches, and “general bakelite”.

I also have gun turrets, wireless, radar, flying clothing, gunsights and bombsights/bomb related electrical equipment.

Wartime Air Publications, particularly Volume Is, original Pilot’s Notes, and A.V. Roe/Lancaster related paperwork.

The wife left years ago!

Magnavon bucking bars 🙂

Some Blackburn Skua ‘artwork’ for XN923.

Ball turret parts for my static display restoration project. 😎

If anyone on the other side of the pond can help me out I’d greatly appreciate it (I’m always searching for parts)!!

John Peters
Marshfield, WI
USA

Have you seen the RB199, Adour and Avon blades on ebay?

I collect any interesting aviation related artefacts – usually stuff of a mechanical nature. I short list would be:

Blades from RB199, Adour and Avon engines
An engine centre cone from an RB199
AV8B Harrier 2 stick grip
Various flight instruments
Mk1 Helmet x2
Soviet O2 Mask
A Wessex tail rotor blade
A couple of aircraft compasses

Rich