I hauled home a real WWII Airplane

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/151175.html
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/436706.html (Check out the crow!)
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/334701.html

 

This was once a beautiful plane. It sat behind the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston for a long time and began to rot. It then got hit by Hurricane Ike.

 

Those tires and wheels would probably look more like aircraft tires as well due to their large size. I could use the wheel adapters to make them fit a 1 ton dually truck axle.

 

Awesome....!

 

Good for you !! nice save.

 

I would stick that next my garage and build a sick ass man cave out of it...

 

Man, words cannot describe how f*%^in cool that is. Too bad I don't live closer, would love to help out on a build like that. Hell I bet I could spend days just looking at all that cool shit you got stashed in your yard.

Good luck with the build and keep us updated..

 

is it done yet ?

 

Thats insane....i dig it

 

words can not describe the envy and awe of this i possess !!!


Batz

 

I gotta think making this into a motorhome is way easier than making a motorhome into a flying machine. Good luck, very cool!

 

bad ass!

 

Is it done yet? Now that is a project Patiently watching...

 

Are these things all over, I saw this one around Sioux Falls over 4th of July

Not sure if it is the same type of plane or not.

 

I love those airplanes... I worked on its "Big Brother" the PV-2D Harpoon sub hunter!

 

woah!

 

That Lodestar went to Montana to be used as a guest house. It sat at an airport in Texarkana for a long time. Gary Hilton is the guy that took it apart and drove it all the way up there. I wish that I had that one because my life would be a lot easier not having to repair all of the damage to mine.

 

Brings back memories. When I was a youngster there used to be a Lodestar owned by Russell-Stover Candies based at the Kansas City Fairfax airport in the mid '60's. It was a very swank executive conversion. Just watching them pull it out and crank it up would give you goose bumps. What a machine. Right next door at the same airport they built B25's.

 

so freakin cool

 

This is one of my most prized prints...

 

All I can say is Dammmnn!
Use a nose wheel and 'short' wing landing gear for drive line....


Man You got me thinking and dreamin.........

 

are there still airplane junk yards in the US?

 

Yep.
Several in California, ( Aviation Warehouse comes to mind), in Florida, theres one down the road from me in Griffin , Georgia, ( Atlanta Air Salvage).

Plenty around.

 

AZ has a bunch of em too....

this thread.....too freakin cool! Least my wife now knows there are nuttier folks out there than me

 

That thing is so crazy, you can,connect a steering shaft to the steering wheel and drive it from that top windshield. That thing is over the top

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Hell yes, California Airframe near near the Oakland CA airport.

That's a Lockheed Hudson, the Military version of the Lodestar. Used for transport, glider towing, reconnaissance and occasional short range bombing missions.The Australians bought a bunch. There's probably a stash of parts over there. Perfect for flying your sheep from station to station.

 

if it's only 7000 pounds, you could do turbo diesel and drag race it.

maybe consider trailing arms for IRS. could tuck a pumpkin up a bit into belly with 934 cv joints and axles sticking out the skin to your hubs. with the right pivots, could create the camber change you drew into your sketch.

take a look at the offroad crowd for ideas, they make stuff that sometimes looks like landing gear:

 

also be kind of cool to figure a way to do a CVT transmission with loud exhaust so it sounds like a plane taking off.

 

I am just wondering if you could use the Dana 70 as you propose, but tuck it up in the chassis, and then make CV shaft come off the ends of that and hook to the outboard of your IRS. The brakes could remain on the end of the D-70 and still be very serviceable. It would also allow you to get your width. You could even shorten the 70 a bit to get the CV shafts longer for the better articulation.