2 Mystery headgear seeking identification?

[derk derin]

That’s how this hobby works. Your happy with one vehicle then a person finds a $10.00 helmet, the next thing you know your looking for an aircraft!
Don’t believe me? Ask Rob!
Derk

[David Dunlop]

So the second helmet is probably RCAF as well then?

You need to take up scuba diving now, Derk.

David

[rob love]

Originally Posted by derk derin

That’s how this hobby works. Your happy with one vehicle then a person finds a $10.00 helmet, the next thing you know your looking for an aircraft!
Don’t believe me? Ask Rob!
Derk

Ah, how history repeats itself. And how one is never cured of the OCD...it just goes into remission just to surface again.


A quote from a post of Derk's a few years ago: http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...4&postcount=32

Quote from Rob Love: Careful Derk.....it is little things like this wrench set that will cause an obsessive compulsive guy like you to go acquire an airplane.



Response form Derk:

The old Derk would have gone out to find an aircraft and bring it home to go with the wrench but I am cured now. My focus on life right now is to rebuild a new kitchen for the wife!
Derk

For the complete saga, go to this thread for a blast from the past: http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ighlight=cured


Derk: I actually saw an ad on one of the online sites for an RCAF aircraft hulk a few days ago that was on someones farmsite. I was going to post it for you, but then I would feel guilty (for about 3 seconds). This would be like the old days when we propelled each other to new levels of insanity. I was the married one, so would get the divorce....you were the single guy so would just keep merrily trudging along.

[rob love]

Here you go Derk....not far from me. You can grab one of those 19 sets from my shelf while you are out here. You know, one of those radios that you "don't need anymore". (Quote from about 5 years ago but now apparently rescinded).

I am going to guess it is the remnants of a mosquito, but only because of the wooden construction inside. I remember one of my cadet officers telling us about how the moths would eat the glue that held them together. That was back in the days when a lot of the cadet officers were ex-RCAF.

https://ebrandon.ca/ItemView.aspx?it...6481&cat_id=68

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[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by rob love

I am going to guess it is the remnants of a mosquito, but only because of the wooden construction inside. I remember one of my cadet officers telling us about how the moths woudl eat the glue that held them together. That was back in the days when a lot of the cadet officers were ex-RCAF.
https://ebrandon.ca/ItemView.aspx?it...6481&cat_id=68

Someone wants their property cleaned up. I'd say go and grab it before it gets scrapped

We can sort out what it is later. It's not a Mosquito, and not a Bristol (Fairchild) Bolingbroke either. We'll see later when it is in Derk's yard...

Old Plane
$1.00
Wawanesa
"Came with property when bought. Open to offers."

[David Dunlop]

An Avro Anson would be my first guess, Rob, based on surviving round fuselage windows. Possibly built by MacDonald Bros in Winnipeg.

The Anson is also one of the possibilities for the ones reportedly sitting underwater here in Manitoba, as you and Derk may recall.

David

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

An Avro Anson would be my first guess, Rob, based on surviving round fuselage windows. Possibly built by MacDonald Bros in Winnipeg.

The Anson is also one of the possibilities for the ones reportedly sitting underwater here in Manitoba, as you and Derk may recall.

David, Avro Anson - of course!

Here's Derk in a couple of years time:

"Sergeant, No. 14 (P) Squadron, RCAF, installing a vertical camera in an Avro Anson V, Rockcliffe, Ont., 4 July 1944"
AvroAnsonCameraInstallJuly1944.jpg

[rob love]

Anson it is. And likely a local connection too.

Derk can have Rob Fast over (who is an RCAF enthusiast) and they can work on it.

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Someone wants their property cleaned up. I'd say go and grab it before it gets scrapped

It should be safe. The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is nearby in Brandon. Unless someone with deep pockets wants to empty them, I have no doubt it will end up in their boneyard. I have gone to a few local auctions at farmsites and seen other fuselages hiding out back, and the answer is always the same. They are holding or storing it for the CATP museum.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by rob love

Anson it is. And likely a local connection too.

Derk can have Rob Fast over (who is an RCAF enthusiast) and they can work on it.

Sidetracking...it's a Mk.V or Mk.VI which was the Canadian improvement over the imported tube and fabric British ones. My favorite Anson story is when Britain shipped a batch of them to Canada as trainers for the BCATP. The RAF mechanics took them apart for shipping and to save time and maybe effort they didn't include the nuts and bolts. It would be easy to get them locally in Canada was their thinking. Well except that North American and British threads are not compatible.

[Grant Bowker]

Low wing, twin engine (radials), training (yellow) aircraft. Not a Cessna AT-17 Bobcat/Crane (sometimes called a bamboo bomber due to wood used in construction) due to window configuration.