Chet
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Just in Time for Halloween : The Airplane Graveyard
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Yeah...especially when you consider there's more airpower parked there than the Canadian Air Force currently possesses.
Wonder if they'd let me borrow one of those B-52s for a couple of hours. I'd bring it back...honest!
Wonder if they'd let me borrow one of those B-52s for a couple of hours. I'd bring it back...honest!
SlaveToTheGrind
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A graveyard of B52's, A7's,F4's, F14's, and F15's plus many others that must make some dicators drool. Hell, there is more firepower there than most air forces.
That reminds me, maybe I'll put a potato down my pants and go as a dicator for halloween.
That reminds me, maybe I'll put a potato down my pants and go as a dicator for halloween.
Budgie
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When I was 5, we lived on Davis Mothan (spelling) Air Force Base in Tucson. Our house was across a strip of desert from the airplane graveyard, it was spooky as a kid to look over at the deserted planes. Growing up on military installations is a trip. SR-71's over the playground, anti-nuke protesters on the way to school, liquored up airman traveling in small packs, foreign gals trying to find an angle to get to the states. AHHHHH, those were the days.
When I was 5, we lived on Davis Mothan (spelling) Air Force Base in Tucson. Our house was across a strip of desert from the airplane graveyard, it was spooky as a kid to look over at the deserted planes. Growing up on military installations is a trip. SR-71's over the playground, anti-nuke protesters on the way to school, liquored up airman traveling in small packs, foreign gals trying to find an angle to get to the states. AHHHHH, those were the days.
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Thats why I'm stockpiling beer, its all about futures!:b:Budgie said:
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Those were other planes. They took them out into the desert and used a giant guillatine machine to cut their fusalage in two so the soviet spy satellites could take pictures of them, after that they were presumably scrapped.
These planes are theoretically still usable, but some of them have been out there for decades and have very old equipment, so they're pretty nearly useless. I don't know if they routenly scrap old planes out of there or not. I know many of them are used for parts for in-service planes, so quite a few are likely in various stages of decomposition. Also, to bring a plane back, it would have to undergo an intensive inspection and overhaul, so it's certanly not like they could just roll it off the desert and fly away.
There's appearently a big commercial airliner graveyard out there too, that's really big right now because of the decline of the airline industry, they mothball planes out there while waiting for a pickup in the industry.
These planes are theoretically still usable, but some of them have been out there for decades and have very old equipment, so they're pretty nearly useless. I don't know if they routenly scrap old planes out of there or not. I know many of them are used for parts for in-service planes, so quite a few are likely in various stages of decomposition. Also, to bring a plane back, it would have to undergo an intensive inspection and overhaul, so it's certanly not like they could just roll it off the desert and fly away.
There's appearently a big commercial airliner graveyard out there too, that's really big right now because of the decline of the airline industry, they mothball planes out there while waiting for a pickup in the industry.
