MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
Anybody need a P-40 or maybe a P-47? We got lots available, cheap!
Scrapped Airplanes
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SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
It's honestly saddens me to see historically significant airplanes scrapped. I understand the realities but still. I built models of these and I guess there's a sort of attachment to them.
SaparotRob
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I know, right?
From the article headlines below the picture. In 1945 they estimated USA familes would have 1 million aircraft because 2.8 million would be able to afford them by 1955, funny how people saw the future.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Speaking of seeing the future, where are the flying cars? They promised us flying cars.
fubar57
General
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SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I'm embarrassed by how much I enjoyed that.
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MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
Recall seeing a reprinted ad from 1947: "P-40's and P-39's. $50 each."
Actually when a friend of mine came to work at the Cape in the late 50's he said he went over to SW FL to a junkyard to look for something and they still had P-40's stacked up, standing on their noses.
And I heard of a case where a man got into oilfield equipment supply after WWII. His business was quite successful and years later he sold it. His son worked for the company after his father had died and was given the job of going round the country and disposing of old equipment and facilities that his father had accumulated. One day he and his cousin, who also worked for the company, went to investigate an airplane hangar in AZ. They knew what they would find, just like all the other warehouses full of worn out oilfield equipment. But when they walked in the hangar what they found was a P-38 Lightning.
His cousin despaired, "What is it going to take to get this thing out of here?" But he replied, "Oh, I think we won't have any trouble getting rid of this." He asked his Mom if his Dad ever bought an airplane and she replied that yes, she recalled that he did. It was an airplane that he had admired in WWII, some kind of twin engine machine.
Actually when a friend of mine came to work at the Cape in the late 50's he said he went over to SW FL to a junkyard to look for something and they still had P-40's stacked up, standing on their noses.
And I heard of a case where a man got into oilfield equipment supply after WWII. His business was quite successful and years later he sold it. His son worked for the company after his father had died and was given the job of going round the country and disposing of old equipment and facilities that his father had accumulated. One day he and his cousin, who also worked for the company, went to investigate an airplane hangar in AZ. They knew what they would find, just like all the other warehouses full of worn out oilfield equipment. But when they walked in the hangar what they found was a P-38 Lightning.
His cousin despaired, "What is it going to take to get this thing out of here?" But he replied, "Oh, I think we won't have any trouble getting rid of this." He asked his Mom if his Dad ever bought an airplane and she replied that yes, she recalled that he did. It was an airplane that he had admired in WWII, some kind of twin engine machine.
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fubar57
General
I really need to get my Waybac machine finished
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MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
Clearly, even in more recent years, opportunities have abounded. By the way, the Cutless. B-25, and F-86D were at that same junkyard collection in Ohio where that XP-82 was located. and all were obtained for free.
Greg Boeser
1st Sergeant
Might have been a few flying cars around here yesterday. First snow of the season.
bdefen
Senior Airman
Remnants of a Douglas B-23 that crashed at Loon Lake, Idaho during WW2.
Here's the story:
The B-23 "Dragon Bomber" Crash Site and Wreck
It's quite a tale.
The attachments are my photos of the Loon Lake bomber taken June 2009. Rode there on our dirt bikes.
In the famous movie, "The Best Years of Our Lives", there's quite a scene that takes place in a military aircraft scrapyard. P-40 hulks lined up, and one of the movie characters spends some time in a B-17 being scrapped.
Here's the story:
The B-23 "Dragon Bomber" Crash Site and Wreck
It's quite a tale.
The attachments are my photos of the Loon Lake bomber taken June 2009. Rode there on our dirt bikes.
In the famous movie, "The Best Years of Our Lives", there's quite a scene that takes place in a military aircraft scrapyard. P-40 hulks lined up, and one of the movie characters spends some time in a B-17 being scrapped.
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SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
That was a great movie. I just couldn't watch those B-17's being chopped up.
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MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
Here is a "scrapped airplane" for you. After WWII B-17's in flying condition were being sold cheaply, so a man fro Oregon bought one, even though he had no pilot's license. He wrecked the first one he bought while trying to take off and they shoved it to one side and gave him another. He flew it to Oregon where he erected it as a gas station. It is now being restored.
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SaparotRob
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Anyone know if there any "shark tail" B-17's saved from scrapping?
cammerjeff
Staff Sergeant
More of a soon to be scrapped photo of the remains of one of the Blimp Hangars at NAS Richmond FL after a direct hit by a Hurricane on 9/15/45
source Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields
What they looked like before the storm
source Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields
What they looked like before the storm
Yes, one. "The Swoose" now at the Air Force Museum
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MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
Don;t know where the Ju88 picture was taken. This one is from Davis Monthan AFB.
And these are of the B-29 Doc, taken at China Lake, I assume
And these are of the B-29 Doc, taken at China Lake, I assume
