Aircraft Guys Need Info WW2

Trying to find out what the 2 planes in the bottom right corner mean.

 

Possibly the stamp of the inspector.

 

Don't know for sure but I concur that they are probably Inspector stamps? Very cool whatever it is!

 

possibly air-worthyness inspection stamps

 

military contractor factories have inspectors the sign of / stamp at all phases during production. the inspectors are employed by both the contractor and the military. todays military inspection group is known as DCMA
vintage weapons collectors go moonshot ******* ver having the right combinations of inspection marks on their weapons. to the point that thre is a healthy cottage industry making fake parts with stamps

 

Try to contact these guys, Ryan did there web site www.aerocraftsman.com

 

Definatly inspection stamps. Probably from manufacture or possibly from an inspection after it was in service.

 

I would believe that they are indeed inspection stamps with the marks around the planes signifying the individual inspectors. If my dad were still alive he could probably tell quite a bit about it as he was a walking encyclopedia of aircraft knowledge and trivia.

 

My $$ is on them being welding certification stamps. Whoever works on it, stamps their work.

Bob

 

I concur, they are most likely inspection stamps. I worked in the areospace industry for 40 years and they do look familar. To find out for sure you could contact Boeing Aircraft historical information, since they were the manufacture and they should be able to tell you for sure what they mean.

 

That is a pressure vessel data plate

 

Those are boeing inspector stamps. The airplane is boeings emblem and then each inspector was ***igned a number

 

i wonder what aircraft it was for...it being mdae in 1947 it missed WW2

 

no its 1941

 

I believe that you'll find out that those are not planes. That is the Boeing logo which consists of BOEING spelled out vertically with two 'eagle' wings emanating out to the side from the "O" and a larger G on the bottom as a base. Some used to call it the "totem pole" logo, but the stamps on your tank are the company's logo used by the company's inspectors and is accompanied by the inspectors' numbers (as previously noted by another contributor to this thread).

I was going to scan that old logo from a patch I have on my old flight jacket, but now my scanner's on the blink....sorry

dj

 

Finally got it going - this is the 'old' logo that is depicted by the small inspector's stamp under discussion

 

Very cool

 

I'd agree on the inspection.

And somewhere there is a paper trail of that part and serial number.
They keep track of everything.

 

I'm curious...
Can you post a picture of the complete tank?

 

here ya go

 

Just looking through my library - with the exception of some X- aircraft, the only thing Boeing had in production in 1947 (coinciding with the date on the tank) was either the B-29, B-50 or B-47 (the last being a jet bomber). As my days with Boeing were much later than any of those, the tank's original application is unknown to me. My educated guess would be one of the prop-driven craft as by the time the Stratojet came into production, there were much larger oil reservoirs than is depicted in your original photo.

dj

 

propwash...look better at the tag.its 1941

 

Looks like 7-31-47 to me...but my baby blues ain't what they used to be - I'll stand corrected if you're right and surmise that it pretty much must be from a B-17 if the year of manufacture is indeed 1941.

dj

 

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i wonder what aircraft it was for...it being mdae in 1947 it missed WW2
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i does look like 1947 in the first picture and 1941 in the second picture

 

I agree..i wouldnt have known if it wasnt for the second picture either

 

maybe i'll ask my mother what they mean , she worked at Boeing during WW2 and has a good memory of some of the l details of the different versions of the B-17

 

eaglebeak called it. Aircraft Inspector Stamps