Help ID a bomber seat...

This bomber seat is in a car with significant history. The owner needs help identifying the seat so he can get one in a little better shape or even get one he can use for parts to repair this one.

Thanks for the help!
Clark

 

B24

 

Please tell us of the significant history you're trying to retain here.

 

There's enough of the car there that someone should recognize it It was a Bonneville car.
Clark

 

Ding Ding Ding!!!! Do i get a prize?


http://www.flickr.com/photos/krapow/3000860313/

 

Ol Deuce...are you 100 percent sure on that ID?

JJ Mack....you cheated
Clark

 

No I didn't!!!!!! I have been studying here on the HAMB for many hours many days....just in case. And I finally found a case!

JJ

 

Ok.

You got me curious now.

Looks more like a B17.

http://us****pits.com/Early%20Bombers/Early Bombers.html

 

B17
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/23110283/m/5921028596

http://www.libertyfoundation.org/images/gallery-b17details/photos-b17.html

B24
http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/6302470_MfGvR/1/397439990_LDUUq#397444059_Fn8vY

???

 

I just posted that about 30 minutes ago!

It's amazing how fast this place moves.

 

Doesn't look like these in a B-17.

 

Those must be the high back delux models!!!

Every pic i look at shows a different seat!!

 

I went through a bunch of those pics and couldn't find it.
Clark

 

...it looks like a cut-down B-17 seat...

 

Larry...when you say cut down, what part are you talking about. Headreast area cut off? The bead around the top looks original. That plate looks added.
Clark

 

That looks more like a Fighter seat. Bomber seats usually had more to them.

This is a Privateer seat which is another version of the B-24

 

Now that I put my gl***es on and gave it a second look...it's not cut down, but it is a B-17 seat...

 

A B-17 seat has 4 ribs in the back, and a B-24 has 3...

 

Larry...it does look just like the B-17 seat in that first pic of yours......just shorter.

He was told by someone it may be a jet seat. Possible?
Clark

 

Wow,Not only real good car enthusiests.

But ****,Fighter Pilots to boot too.

Gotta love the Hamb

 

Clark: You may be well-served by contacting the Paul Garber facility that does most of the restorations for the Smithsonian Air & Space Museums...they probably have a few folks there that can I.D. that seat for you with a very high degree of certainty.

All the best-Mark aka W.S.

http://www.nasm.si.edu/museum/garber/

http://www.nasm.si.edu/help/contact.cfm

 

Mark...the problem he's been having is the airplane crowd doesn't want to talk to hot rodders.........for good reason. Their seats are being hoarded up by the hot rodders
Clark

 

Ahhhh... I didn't think of that.

 

I would still go with the B24 seat , it would depend on location in the air craft. what time frame during the war . and also parts are parts -war time anything worked.

 

Well, just got this from a Warbirds forum and it is a B-17 seat.

The wild part is that the person who sent me this is in France!!

 

OK...seat settled...now about that bear...What?? How?? When?? Who?? Why??
Navigator's ***istant? Foot warmer?

 

forgot about the radio operator's seat on the B-17...yes it was shorter, but looked like the pilot's seat.

*update*...found your seat, but the site won't let me copy it.

go to www.wilhelm-aerospace.org

click on: Travels

scroll down to: Route 66 and So'Cal

scroll down to: Planes of Fame Museum

scroll down to the image that is ***led: The radio equipment

...there's your seat...a B-17 Radio Operator's seat.

 

Here's a Grumman "Duck" seat. Don't think thats right either but you gotta
love the"suspension". Roar and Soar show is this weekend so I'll try and get
some better seat pics. The B17 pics I posted earlier"could" have different
seats(I'll ask), this plane flew unmanned during Andrew in 92 and by the
time it was found somebody had already snagged the seats and guns...
Damn hot rodders...

 

Here ya' go larry...

 

Good eye Larry!