Awesome noseart resting in Arizona

[jd]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TJk1jqzjYU&feature=related

[9thAFE]

If anyone ever wants to see a interesting (short) story look up the history of the B17 5grand, its picture is right towards the beginning of this clip its kind of a neat little story.

[Slate]

  Very cool.    Were these photos taken long ago? (Black and White)  Made me sad to see them chopping them up.

   But the Boobies made me happy! 

[matt]

 

[Krusty]

Boneyards aren't cemetaries. They only keep airframes that are currently in service, that may or may not be in production anymore. That way any engine replacements, wings, or sundry parts, can be scavenged to keep the aging fleet still in service. As soon as that plane type is no longer in the inventory, that is to say as soon as you wont need those parts anymore, they will start scrapping or selling them to make room for the next planes in the inventory.

I think the youtube clip said it was taken between 1946-1948, so B24s, B17s, and B29s would still be in service at that time.

[Daddkev]

  I love Boobies !!!!! 

[lyric1]

We have two of those skins in game now that were in the clip.

[Babalonian]

I was at Kingman AZ airport two weekends ago, nothing cool is left in their boneyard from WWII, long ago sold before being all cut up and scrapped before 1949.  The airport is currently still a boneyard, but for the DHL fleet's DC-8s and Delta's DC-9/MD-80/90s (and a couple from SAS).

[jd]

I was at Kingman AZ airport two weekends ago, nothing cool is left in their boneyard from WWII, long ago sold before being all cut up and scrapped before 1949.  The airport is currently still a boneyard, but for the DHL fleet's DC-8s and Delta's DC-9/MD-80/90s (and a couple from SAS).

I was afraid of that and was pretty sure that was the case at this point. At least we have you-tube (Shrug).

Slipstrm

[Phoenix 7]

*sniff*

[uptown]

Makes me sick to see them being scrapped out. So many....

[Babalonian]

Well, if it's any consolation, all the smelters and the dozens of scrap yards that blossomed up there 60+ years ago as a consequence of the local activities are still there and thriving doing the same ol' buisness of smelting down old aircraft into beer cans (IE: DHL's DC-8s), but mostly they're still there and thriving today from having no qualms about recieving and scrapping (and making a living outa) the crap you legaly can't strip/scrap/smelt just across the river and within CA state lines.