Original Item: Only One Available. This is a really great WWII Browning .50 Caliber flexible feed chute that was used in the mid sections of the B-17, B-24 and B-25 Bombers.

The feed chute measures roughly 55 x 6” when laid out, and both ends retain a very faint data plate with the manufacturer’s information, which we cannot fully make out. We are able to tell that it was manufactured by the Hughes Aircraft Company, a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded on February 14, 1934 by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California, as a division of the Hughes Tool Company. The company produced the Hughes H-4 Hercules aircraft, the atmospheric entry probe carried by the Galileo spacecraft, and the AIM-4 Falcon guided missile.

The feed chute is in fantastic condition overall with heavy service wear. There are some dings and dents to the flexible feed chute assembly, and remnants of original period gray paint. A feed chute is a device used to protect or guide a belt, or act as the exterior of a linkless feed system. In modern use, the term most commonly refers to articulated devices used to route ammunition from its source to a mounted weapon's receiver: however, non-articulated feed chutes designed to give alignment guidance to a belt as it enters the action of a firearm were commonly fitted to tank and aircraft machine guns in the two World Wars. A very short non-articulated feed chute is sometimes instead called a feed throat.

A fantastic feed chute section, ready for further research and display!