Unknown Old Wings- Anybody Recognize Them?

[tulsaboy]

Does anyone recognize this set of wings? Maybe an "Air Station?" Thanks!

kevin

[K5DH]

Maybe some commercial company's pilot wings, as in "D______ Air Service"?

[jtramo]

Delta Air Service?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/delta_muse ... 037906528/

http://www.nasm.si.edu/images/collectio ... 689018.JPG

[Steve Nelson]

It doesn't look like a pin or uniform insignia..more like it was stamped onto something larger, from which it was later cut.

SN

[tulsaboy]

Steve- Let me clarify what you are looking at... A local engraver/jewler/medal/medallion maker called our museum and said that he had some old dies hanging around the shop from 60-70 years ago that he was interested in donating. There were some dies to make graduation rings for an Army Air Corps school in Tulsa at Spartan, and there was also a die to punch out these wings. Originally they would have put a silver blank between the dies, smashed it out on the press, and then trimmed away the excess and soldered on a pin back. Just so we would have something to look at, he slid a little piece of aluminum between the dies and punched it out for us. This is not an original set of wings. We just have the original dies. And I'm trying to figure out from whence they came. He had suggested that it might have been for something in Dallas, maybe at Love Field?

kevin

[JohnB]

AS could also stand for aeronautical school....either an A&P school or a contract primary training outfit during the war.

From your additional information, at least we now know it's not an official government or foreign piece.

[Steve Nelson]

Thanks for the clarification..an cool find, whatever it represents!

SN

[The Inspector]

If you can get the dies from the guy, there could be a market for the repoped wings as 'trash-n-trinkets' @ the airshow table-I've got all sorts of wings, pins, and buttons on my old straw cowboy airshow hat and workin' on a leather one as time goes along.
Time to find the local telephone museum and dive into the pile of really old phone books looking under airlines or air charter or flight training.

[res6kgcr]

Hi all,

It looks me these wings are from the Dallas Aviation School, Love Field, Dallas TX. The newsreel from which this still is from is reporting on the first class of British pilots to be trained in America under the British Flying Training School program. Since the Dallas Aviation School had not yet finish their new school at Terrell, TX for his program the first class stated training at the school’s home base at Love Field.



Best regards,
Tom

[tulsaboy]

Tom,

Really, really interesting. Would fit nicely with the story told to us by the old engraver. He was pretty confident that they had something to do with Dallas and Love Field, but couldn't specify what. Now the real trick- can anyone come up with a photo of those wings that connect the dots to Love Field or DAS?

Thanks Tom!

kevin

[DaveG]

the wings shown in this ad aren't the same:

[DaveG]

not the same here either...

[shrike]

And those don't match these, from a different ad.

<snip>
Same image as above

too slow on me

[tulsaboy]

DaveG and Shrike-

Seems that they might not be from Dallas, then. Someone via PM suggested that they might be from the Darr School of Aeronautics, which operated BFTS 6 at Ponca City, OK, just a short drive from Tulsa. Would be a neat geographic fit, if (as it seems) these wings aren't from Dallas. Anyone have something from Darr?

Thanks for all of the suggestions and help!

kevin

[Craig59]

Here's a link from the Militaria Forum which might prove helpful:

http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=71999&pid=523306&mode=threaded&start=