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By: - 16th July 2012 at 06:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hi Galdri
Have you also tried on WIX?
By: - 16th July 2012 at 17:02 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Not that I know what it came from but it almost looks like an 'add-on' for a fighter-bomber, the nearest I have seen is in the Typhoon (Duxfords cockpit is a bomber with additional controls). Perhaps you could start with the british types that could have come down in that area?
By: - 16th July 2012 at 22:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Could it be from a Fairey Battle?
I seem to recall that 98 Squadron were based in Iceland for a while.
At work at the mo, so don't have the relevant data to hand...
By: - 17th July 2012 at 00:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Thank you guys.
There were no fighter bombers of British manufacture based in Iceland during the war. The only British built, landbased fighter to be regularly based on the island were the 6 Hurricanes of 1423 fighter flight in 1941 - the air defense of Iceland was taken over by the Americans in August of that year using P39´s and P40´s.
Carrier based fighters are a different story - pretty much everything the FAA used came through Iceland at one point or another. Could this possibly be from an FAA aircraft?
Regarding the Battle idea, all 98 squadron aircraft are accounted for, and none of them crashed into the see to the west of the country.
Would be nice to find out what this is!
Regards
By: - 17th July 2012 at 01:07 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
HI
Could it be off one of the northrop N3PB's, there might be cockpit photos on the net of the restored one ?
bomb drop could be more of a north american term,
think the UK term is bomb release ?
cheers
Jerry
By: - 17th July 2012 at 01:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Jerry,
It is a possibility, but the part in question has a very "British" inspection stamp - an E with in a circle (see the fourth picture down) - that I´ve never seen on an American built part. I suspect the Northrops had all American equipment, but I´ll see what I can find on t´net
By: - 17th July 2012 at 06:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hi Galdri...not sure that the 'E' in a circle is an inspection stamp,insp stamps usually also contain the inspectors number.
rgds baz
edit...but i suppose it could be a company/plant identifier or perhaps a process ident,allegedly an 'H' in a circle means the component has been heat treated !
By: - 17th July 2012 at 07:30 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Looks American to me
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By: galdri - 16th July 2012 at 01:32
A friend of mine has sent me some pictures of a "bomb drop" panel and asked me to identify the aircraft it came of. I must admit having no clue what - so - ever about what it came out of. It was found on a beach in the west part of Iceland about 5-7 years ago.
By looking at it, I would think it is of British manufacture, but that is as far as I´m able to help the guy. What do you think?
This is the underside of the thing. There are some numbers there reading the first digit is not clear, but is probably a 4, so the number is: 447599-G (there might be another letter after the G, but it is not readable). Inspection stamp E within a circle.
