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i can't even begin to describe what walt soplata has made with some of his airplane parts!!! sections of his house were made from equipment crates too!!

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Kaman Aircraft in Connecticut had, I believe, two F8F Bearcats for crosswind testing of their helicopters. Elmer Ward restored one of them as "Gulfhawk IV".
BDK, I've actually seen the Corsair wind machine in person. I wish it was mine!
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Lone Star Flight Museum has the other one replicating a Blue Angel with Butch Voris's markings on it.

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And the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola has tail hooks as fence posts with chain welded to it.

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Pics of a few Radials alternatively used

http://www.chez.com/pullinghue/rdphotos.html

A a few V12's as well


http://de.geocities.com/smecking/tractors/thetractors.htm
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Dave, the tailhooks were all removed some time ago. Most were A-4 hooks best I could tell. We saw them in the big building that was used as a warehouse for the museum. That building has since been torn down due to hurricane damage. It was over by the pier where the Lex used to be.
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There was also a DC-3/C-47 motorhome painted up to look like the Space Shuttle.


Here's a link to the story behind this cool idea.

http://www.airportjournals.com/Display. ... ID=0507005
Yup! I saw it at Edwards AFB when the second shuttle flight landed.
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I've seen a few wing (T-33?) tanks and drop tanks used along highways for advertising. There's one near Modesto that is made up to look like a fish.........


Drove by it today on my way home from a camping trip. Store was closed, so I couldn't hit the owner up for details. Due to the base, looked like a wingtip tank? Between Modesto and Empire on 132.

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If thats the bait, what are they fishing for?
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An old guy in Oklahoma told me once that right after the war when Stearmans were being converted to single seat crop dusters, the go-cart and dune buggy crowd decided that THE seat to have in their rides were surplus Stearman and BT seats. Kinda explains why they're so darn hard to find nowadays.
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Maybe Tighar ought to get that bait and take it with thwm. What weight line should one use?
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If THIGAR did take the bait, they'd probably come back with and show everyone that they found the droptank from Amelia's Lockheed 10!
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It was popular among postwar hot rodders to use surplus aircraft seats in their cars, especially racers. Today, the so-called "rat rod" crowd still digs them up somewhere and uses them in their "old is new" rods. Many allegedly came from C-45s (obviously not "bomber" seats, but they were called that by the uninitiated).

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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

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