Author Topic: whats this (Read 978 times)

SELECTOR · « **on:** January 26, 2003, 10:57:26 AM »

what is it

ra · « **Reply #1 on:** January 26, 2003, 11:23:12 AM »

Looks like a P-40 graveyard.

ra

pangea · « **Reply #2 on:** January 26, 2003, 11:24:17 AM »

P-40's with engines removed about to be scraped.

Lizard3 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 26, 2003, 11:38:55 AM »

Nope, yer both wrong.

That my friends is a cry'n shame!:(

Monk · « **Reply #4 on:** January 26, 2003, 11:42:05 AM »

Viper17 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 26, 2003, 01:46:03 PM »

A Crying Shame.

bigUC · « **Reply #6 on:** January 26, 2003, 02:36:13 PM »

Bish suicide mission?

udet · « **Reply #7 on:** January 26, 2003, 02:43:57 PM »

i saw that same pic in a magazine two days ago. poor critters.

Jester · « **Reply #8 on:** January 26, 2003, 03:46:52 PM »

That pic may have been taken here in Arkansas. The flew thousands of surplus a/c into a giant scrapyard in N. Arkansas to cut them up. Read an article on it how many new B-24's & B-17's were flew straight from the factory to the yard to be cut up.

M.C.202 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 26, 2003, 07:31:39 PM »

The P-38 photo shows that the Cat D-7 is under-modeled. In A.H. i can't land half this many kills.

hazed- · « **Reply #10 on:** January 26, 2003, 10:00:41 PM »

wow maybe the stories of P38s tail being tougher than you think ARE TRUE!!!

thats the p38 display team after a rather nasty miss-timing accident and NOT ONE has broken its tail!!!!!

who would have thought it?? maybe they can cut down trees with their wings?

Shiva · « **Reply #11 on:** January 27, 2003, 11:38:45 AM »

IIRC, the picture of the P-38 graveyard is from Alaska, where P-38s were bulldozed into a ravine after the end of the war rather than incur the expense of flying them home to be scrapped.

Reschke · « **Reply #12 on:** January 27, 2003, 12:28:29 PM »

Looks like F4U's with engines out and ready to go to the final scrapyard. At least that is what it looks like with the landing gear and the shape of the wings.

maxtor · « **Reply #13 on:** January 27, 2003, 02:06:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Shiva
IIRC, the picture of the P-38 graveyard is from Alaska, where P-38s were bulldozed into a ravine after the end of the war rather than incur the expense of flying them home to be scrapped.

Considering a P38 can sell for about 6 million bucks today - yeah, pretty sad.

Shiva · « **Reply #14 on:** January 27, 2003, 03:50:31 PM »

I remember seeing a picture of them actually doing the bulldozing (after which grenades were tossed into the wreckage to further make the planes unflyable, as well as expend the ordnance); I'd hate to have to watch a video of the process.