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[Indrek]

[Alan Erskine[_4_]]

On 3/01/2011 12:44 PM, Indrek wrote:


Graveyards are such sad places when they eventually leave no trace of
the 'guests'. Normal graveyards have headstones; none are put up for
beautiful aircraft when they 'die'.

[John Szalay[_2_]]

Alan Erskine > wrote in news:gyDUo.6885$gM3.4813
@viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com:

> On 3/01/2011 12:44 PM, Indrek wrote:
>
>
> Graveyards are such sad places when they eventually leave no trace of
> the 'guests'. Normal graveyards have headstones; none are put up for
> beautiful aircraft when they 'die'.
>


Thats the reason for the "Celebrity Row" at AMARC. to keep a sample of
each aircraft that went through the boneyard.


It is sad to watch them feed these birds to the furnaces, or chop them
up..
back in the middle 60;s watched F-86s from the Hawaii air guard being
chopped and fed to the portable furnace.
and lately watched them reduce old airliners at Maxton NC to piles of
debris to be hauled off to be recycled.


Circa 1949-50 Pyote Tex.
portable furnace reducing surplus B-29s to ingots.