AustinO Posted April 3, 2017 Share #1 Posted April 3, 2017 Slept in my car over the weekend to be #1 at the sale of a USAAF WWII-Korea Lt Col Pilot. He flew B-24s in the MTO during WWII, then served in some sort of pilot training/liaison type role after the war and through Korea in the Pacific (I bought his Chinese wings). House was filthy as no one had lived there in almost a decade, and I didn't catch this item hidden in a garage corner until the second day of the sale (went back for half price day). The familiar look of OD covered zinc-oxide is what gave it away, otherwise I would have totally walked right past it again. It was missing a couple screws but the price was right. After I replaced the screws the chair collapses just fine, exactly as built/designed by some industrious groundcrewman overseas. I'd like to think this was cobbled together from B-24 scraps in the Mediterranean... Has anyone ever come across something similarly built from aircraft components? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northcoastaero Posted April 3, 2017 Share #2 Posted April 3, 2017 Interesting item. Nice find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falcon_ib Posted April 4, 2017 Share #3 Posted April 4, 2017 Very cool item. It's amazing what ingenuity GIs come up with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantomfixer Posted April 4, 2017 Share #4 Posted April 4, 2017 I have not come across anything like that from aircraft related material...being deployed many times...we made chairs out of most anything...very coolthe chair was made from acft parts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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