Featured Finds Thread

I found a couple of days off work for the holidays.

 

I only get one day. But hey, who's to say I'm "working" X-Mas Eve and Friday, since the boss won't be there.....feet kicked up on his desk, drinking his coffee and listening Christmas music.

 

U sure u want to post that ???

 

Teeny tiny De Havilland Aircraft service pin c WWII. 1/2" wingspan:

 

Dumb question but . . . what does the "E" (before the "A") stand for?

 

Haven't figured that out. The person this came from is no longer with us to say.

 

Oh, I'm sorry, Moreotherstuff. Please forgive me.

 

For what? Decades have passed. It was a good question. Wish I knew the answer.

 

My aunt worked at De Havilland for decades. I have a number of service pins, but that's the most interesting, and probably the oldest.. When she retired, she was given this picture signed by pretty much everyone there:



The animals represent aircraft produced by De Havilland: Buffalo, Caribou, Otter, Beaver and Chipmunk.

 

That pin appears to relate to any American manufacture DH may have done, if British it would not say Sterling and the aircraft looks like the Grumman Wild cat or Hellcat shape of mid 40s. Notably it is depicted with a radial engine, and DH never made a radial engined single engine fighter that I can remember.

Could it be possible that DHEA does not relate to De Haviland, but to some US aircraft company?
I doubt if it stands for dehydroepiandrosterone.

De Haviland Canada is usually referred to as DH-C when referring to their Canadian designs and I think all of these were post WWII.

 

The avatar is someone famous, she is European, it is an inside joke, can't tell you who she is.

 

Ya, he doesn't mind. He's a good guy.

 

Well, whoever she is, it's a very lovely picture. Props to her.

 

So, do you run a service?

 

Not British was my thought also when I saw the word sterling. My first thought was that De Havilland didn't even make a single engine plane, nevermind if radial or not. Then I saw the De Havilland Canada Otter (DHC-3), a single engine aircraft. Secondly, read that the Otter was more or less a latter version of the Beaver (DHC-2) that had a Pratt & Whitney radial engine. Both of these planes were high wing planes meaning they didn't look like this pin. There was also the De Havilland Canada Chipmunk (DHC-1), a single engine low-wing plane. I don't think it used a radial engine. To my aeronautical ignorant eyes, this plane doesn't look like the pin either. I think a De Havilland bi-wing plane may have had a radial engine or the engines were replaced with radial engines by the South African Air Force. Anyways, being a bi-wing eliminates for being this pin.

>I doubt if it stands for dehydroepiandrosterone.<

LOL I ran DHEA through all sorts of aeronautical searches, and didn't come up with a thing that was aeronautically related, but did on dehydroepiandrosterone.

--- Susan

 

The pin doesn't look like any De Havilland plane that I'm aware of. Perhaps this pin commemorates a partnership between DH and some other company with the EA initials for some unknown project. I've always thought this plane looked like a fighter or a trainer with that raised canopy. I don't think it's surprising that this doesn't have British marks. Why should it? We're talking about De Havilland Canada here.

The nearest De Havilland plane I can find is the Swallow Moth, but only one of those was ever made. Seem very unlikely.

 

Other Moth designs such as the Puss Moth and the Tiger moth had inverted inline engines. I have never heard of a Swallow Moth. No altogether surprising if all they made was a prototype.

 

More other stuff, I love the picture your Aunt Alyce received!!!!

No, I don't run any services. I would like to attend a Christmas Eve candlelight service this year, though.

 

Ok, I woke up at 5 this morning just to drive in pouring rain to work. When I got there, I was told we were off, paid too. So, I went home and changed, getting ready to click on the tv. Got the call to come into work. I "found" me 4hrs over at double time and a half, that's over $100 hr.

 

That pin is a more complex version of the UK logo. Based on a race plane, from memory. Back in a bit, I need to go find some books and my other half.