[Apex Motorsports]

Originally Posted by Scalded Dog

On May 10, 1982, Major R.L.Barton was flying an A4 Shyhawk east of Barstow, CA, when he developed "loss of power" problems, he was unable to regain control, so he ejected (safely and successfully) and the jet crashed into the lava beds near Pisgah Crater.

Almost to the day, 30 years later, I hiked out to view the wreckage (no personal connection, just read about the crash online). The wreckage is in a very remote location, in extremely difficult terrain.. the beauty of that is that there is none of the usual trash/ litter that covers the entire rest of the desert. Anyway, about 1/2 mile from the wreckage (which is still there, tail numbers, wings, and countless parts), we stumbled across a large piece of the ejected kokpit (C5 edit software won't let me spell that one correctly...!) shell.

I'm trying to come up with something really cool to do with this. An expert has already told me that it would be unwise to use it as one side of a fish tank, as it appears that the stress fractures could possibly leak under hydrostatic pressure. However, I am seriously toying with the idea of replacing the rear tiny side windows on my Camaro with carefully cut sections of the ****pit window...

Wow. I would love to go check that out. I bet there is all kinds of cool stuff out there.