Whats in your collection ?

Thanks Rocketeer, it would be nice to put a little history to it because it is quite a significant manual (to me anyway:) ).

Regards,

John.

FMK.6John…..I shall have a looksy, D Jackson sounds familiar, he may well be an FTE tho’. I have served for him in the ETPS course lists quickly but no luck so far!

I have a mainwheel from PA980 someplace in the garage…

& my mantle has a Merlin rod & a bunch of Merlin/R2800/R3350 valves gathering dust 🙂

I *did* have quite a pile of Spit/P51/A26 stuff that was on loan to a local museum/bar… but it changed ownership & the new block sold a bunch of it on Ebay.. even tho he knew it was on loan…

One day I’ll bump into the guy & it will be messy…:dev2:

Only a novice collector at the moment, unless people havn’t guessed I ar mostly been oglin Lightnings 😀 😀 .

For visual pleasure in my snug…..

Some bit of the genuine article, not much to some but absolute gold to me..

This one I want to know more about,
A manual for the prototype Lightning XA847 (the first all british plane to acheive mach 2 in level flight) the dates inside start from 07/08/57 which is just before the plane was delivered to A&AEE.
The name of the guy that signed the updates was Mr D. Jackson and there is also Mr Astbury in pencil on the front.
If anyone can shed some light on this then please let me know.

Regards,

John.

I have a little book which was published (in Dutch) by the Germans early in WWII, after the Netherlands had surrendered to the Nazis and was occupied by them. The book was probably distributed for free back then by the German occupational forces.

It was meant as an aircraft recognition book for Dutch civilians. What makes the book so special is that the ‘Axis countries and their allies’, Germany, Italy, Japan, Finland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia are called ‘Friendly States’, and the ‘Enemy States’ are Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States of North America.

The book shows B/W photographs of nearly every aircraft which was in service in those years. For the Axis aircraft, only the manufacturers, designations and purposes are mentioned (eg. Fiat G50, aka “Freccia”, single seat fighter), all other information was considered classified at the time.

For most of the ‘enemy’ aircraft a silhouette was also pictured, and a brief description was given of manufacturer, dimensions, engine power, crew numbers and armament.

I got this book from my father, who as a little boy had to watch the bombing of Rotterdam from one of the outskirts of the city in 1940.

Some kind of a treasure to me.

Tilleman.

I’ve set up this display of my late father’s artefacts from his RAF service 1940 to 1946 at Solway Aviation Museum. He trained at Squires Gate and Goodwood before being shipped to Canada where he served with 36SFTS. After a head injury he was re-patriated and completed his service with 57MU at Castle Kennedy and Wig Bay. He served as an Airman, first class, and post-war had a career as a civilian aircraft engineer with BEA, and Scottish Aviation. During the 1960’s he re-trained on jet engines and then worked for Rolls Royce aero engine division until failing eyesight forced retiral in 1982 at the age of 63. He died in 2004, aged 85.

Large collection of aircraft related manuals (maintenance, flying and training). Bulk of the ‘historic’ collection are Air Pubs for the HP Victor and Vickers Valiant. Also have a large number of manuals for the DH/HS Trident.

I donated my entire collection of Valiant manuals to the Highland Aircraft Preservation Society to aid the restoration of XD875’s nose section.

Collections..

The pride of my collection is my group of drawing office documents concerning the Gladiator, HP400 and original blueprints for the Gnu and Grasshopper. All with original design notes. During my next week off work in March I shall be making a trip to Hendon to see if they are interested. Far too good to be kept where they are now, under my bed! My 150 BoB signatures are pretty close to my heart too, but they are going nowhere.

Deano.

Ken who? :diablo:

Have so much stuff in me collection I had to help start a museum to keep it all in!

My ‘area’s are nominally RAF (uniforms, kit, aircraft parts etc) , with special interest in aircraft ordnance, aircraft recognition/models (sheesh are THEY expensive now) and WW2 British Army kit (have a virtually complete collection of British WW2 small arms, save a PIAT and a Vickers).

My fave items…that i keep at home!

Hawker Fury Sticktop
Harvard and Texan instrument panels and stick tops.
Avro 504 seat and prop
1942 dated Ham Standard presentation propeller letter opener
Wooden Britannia Model
Type 2 Sector Clock
Collection of WW1 flechettes….

And me ‘interest’ in the Beech and our lovely T-6G projects…

I could go on, but I sudden realise that I need to get out more!

TT

Letter from Geoffrey Wellum about RAF Gt Sampford (my local airfield). Piece of genuine WW2 shrapnel dated 15 Feb 1993, and a shoebox full of bits of Dornier Do17Z. Sadly the brass panel from a Hurricane ‘dig’ went AWOL at some point, and I never even found out what it was, but those are my prizes.

Someone else had the data plate from the Dornier – what would that have been worth had it been from a Spitfire?

Adrian

Grandads ‘Pilots Notes-Mosquito’ and ‘Pilots Notes-Valetta’:)

My signed copy of the Battle of Britain movie photo album by Robert Rudhall – signed by actual Battle pilots, members of the BBMF and RR himself. No. 45 out of 100.

my personal oldies

a couple great pieces which were gifts from my Grandmother to my uncle (RCAF) in 1941 (Warplane – cover and spread attached) and 1942 (How To Identify Aircraft – cover attached). And then more recent (1973) Volume 1 Number 1 of ‘Air Combat’ – cover attached – by Challenge Publications.

More ‘sweet’ bits abound (including most of my grandfather’s WWI documents – intake (1915), discharge (1919) and paybook (1918) included) but these are my all-time aviation favourites

JJ

Absolute pride of my collection is the logbook of an RCAF Spitfire pilot. He flew first with 416, then flew Hurricanes off CAM ships for a bit before moving on to Spit XIIs with 41 and then becoming a Flight Commander in 91 Squadron also on XIIs. He then flew Spit XIVs and IXs with 91 before returning to Canada in August 44. He stayed in the RCAF flying Sabres until about 1960

I took it to the 1985 Coltishall reunion of 41 Squadron and got it autographed by all the Spit pilots in attendence. I wouldn’t part with it for anything.

Dan