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Used Tomcats for sale..Found these shots in a book (Read 977 times)

Reply #15 - May 14^th, 2004 at 2:08pm

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Is she so un-attractive?

Yes

Actually there would be one way to make her attractive, but it involves putting her in a coffin and driving a stake through her heart (if you've got an electron microscope to find it!) Grin

Mark

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #16 - May 14^th, 2004 at 5:47pm

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I toured AMARC last spring, while on a trip to watch some spring training baseball. IT's a great tour, put on by the Pima Air and Space Museum across the street. IT's a 1 hour bus tour, photography allowed. The museum is great too. Tons of aircraft sitting in the sand, and you can walk rright up to them. I remember about 7 B-52s, a HArrier, F-14, A-10, Ea6, C-130, and lots more.
If I can find my pics, would ther be interest in my posting them?

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Reply #17 - May 14^th, 2004 at 7:50pm

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It's not all a total loss....In 1950 when the Korean War started, they dragged out heaps of B-29's (50 for a start) and then used parts from may of the others to keep things going. Spare parts worth $300,000, half the initial purchase price of each aircraft, were being removed from each B-29. This included bombsights, engines, fuel and oil tanks, propellors and instruments. The stripped out carcasses were sold for scrap at $2,300 each.

According to the book "Boneyard Badges" over 1000 B-47s were sent there for disposal.

The main idea of the book was to record the "nose art" and insignias of many forgotten squadrons.

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Reply #18 - May 15^th, 2004 at 5:54am

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Actually there would be one way to make her attractive, but it involves putting her in a coffin and driving a stake through her heart (if you've got an electron microscope to find it!) Grin

Dammit! Now how can I get that B-47?? Hmmm...............................................beer? Grin

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Reply #19 - May 16^th, 2004 at 6:48pm

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they should at least allow us to visit the places......that would be awesome walking round an aircraft graveyard for a day

as if they are leaving aircraft to rot away instead of transfering them to museums..the shame of it

does the navy still fly the f14?

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Reply #20 - May 16^th, 2004 at 7:08pm

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Yup Daz they still do fly 14s Wink

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