Strange civilian uses of warbird parts

King · **Posted:** Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:54 am

Mortmer wrote:

In Lebanon, CT. there is a tail section that looks as if it came from a military jet in a barn yard -

http://spike.cs.umass.edu/~pbinder/tailsection.jpg

Paul

Looks to be from a F-16.

Swiss Mustangs · **Posted:** Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:57 am

From JB's site:

General Dynamics F-16C Block 50D Fighting Falcon 91-0397 (20th FW, 78th FS) crashed July 22, 1998 into Atlantic Ocean off Myrtle Beach, SC. Pilot ejected safely.

Martin

Eric Friedebach · **Posted:** Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:48 am

I saw this outside of the Happy Fisherman restaurant in Osage Beach recently. Great food, BTW.

Pop Quiz! Name some things that make it non-airworthy.

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11319

Well, it's upside down for one.

Bear · **Posted:** Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:59 am

Nice prop! :lol:

Tulio · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 1:05 am **Posts:** 3236

Eric Friedebach wrote:

Pop Quiz! Name some things that make it non-airworthy.

It is missing fuselage and wings? : )

Saludos,

Tulio

TEXANTOMCAT · **Posted:** Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:35 am

A few from the UK - the prop/fence post thing is true - we have a couple of ROTOL blades ex-spit which were used as such, farmers bought loads of them post war as cheap fencing!

turrets and astrodomes used as garden cloches, also T-6 style canopies were popular - especially Miles Master ones for some reason

the human being is a resourceful animal!

HP Hamilcar was used as a barn and recovered for the Tank Museum, various Horsa fuselage sections too....

or the most famous of all the legendary Weston on the Green Barn which was made almost entirely of Bristol Fighters! 3-4 of which are now flying!

TT

Eric Friedebach · **Posted:** Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:23 am

You guys are good, but bdk picked out what I was thinking of the most.

Django · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:15 pm

This site shows a bridge made of aircraft parts, and a B-24 bombay door on a scrap pile!

http://users.rcn.com/hugh.turner/Leslie/Leslie.html

shilo53 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:38 pm

My dad's neighbor used to have what seemed to be a F-86 canopy in his yard he used for a dog shelter. Not sure it's still there but as of a couple of years ago it was.

JägerMarty · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:56 pm

My GFs father has a floating pontoon on his farm, the floats are 2X F86 Sabre drop tanks

Canso42 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:14 pm

In the 1980 Texas Renaissance Festival participants' campground I met a fellow from Houston who had a Dodge maxivan with a B-47 canopy on top and some kind of cobbled up gun turret at the stern. That part reminded me of the remote turret on the combat vehicle from one of the Alien movies.

Nathan · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:17 pm

I read of where someone used the canopy of a P-40 for a doghouse down in Georgia! :shock:

There is a 4 blade prop in a flower bed at the entrence of a local foster care home. Looks like from a Corsair or Skyraider! :shock:

Bill Walker · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:20 pm

As a kid in Manitoba in the 50s I was shown several chicken sheds that were claimed to be the packing crates for troop gliders. The farmers bought them after the war, threw away the gliders, and kept the crates.

Canso42 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:23 pm

[quote="Eric Friedebach"]I saw this outside of the [url=http://www.funlake.com/dining/dining_detail.php?id=43]Happy Fisherman[/url] restaurant in Osage Beach recently. Great food, BTW.

Pop Quiz! Name some things that make it non-airworthy.
The hose clamp is installed backwards.

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