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Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: BBQ_Bob on January 24, 2006, 01:04:34 PM

Check this out, the airplane boneyard.  Boneyard (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/1162/page/0) Go there and open the place mark.

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Simaril on January 24, 2006, 02:11:39 PM

Cool find.

See lots of F-4s, a-10s, f-14s -- sorry morph -- and maybe some a4s.

Not sure about these -- the planform looks like f/a-18s, but only see a single tail. Whaddya think?

....(http://www.furballunderground.com/gallery2/data/media/33/are_therse_hornets.jpg)


BTW, anybody have the location of the USAF's boneyard? I'm sure its a lot bigger than this.....

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Morpheus on January 24, 2006, 02:15:35 PM

Gay super hornets.

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: seabat on January 24, 2006, 02:48:59 PM

f-16's

The New Zealand Government announced on December 1st, 1998, that it will lease-buy the 28 Pakistani F-16s which have been kept in storage at the AMARC (Aircraft Maintenance and Regeneration Center) at Davis-Monthan AFB, also known as the (desert) Bone yard.

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Spatula on January 24, 2006, 02:56:33 PM

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Originally posted by seabat
f-16's

The New Zealand Government announced on December 1st, 1998, that it will lease-buy the 28 Pakistani F-16s which have been kept in storage at the AMARC (Aircraft Maintenance and Regeneration Center) at Davis-Monthan AFB, also known as the (desert) Bone yard.

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They sure look like F16s.

The NZ govt was going to sell the aging but modernised A4 Skyhawks and buy the 28 F16s to replace them. Instead we  scrapped our entire air combat wing... Thats right, we dont have a combat wing, at all... Just transports, Helos, and Orions. The NZ govt has ruled out purchasing the F16s. I think the A4s were sold back to a private company in the USA.

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Simaril on January 24, 2006, 03:34:59 PM

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Originally posted by Simaril


BTW, anybody have the location of the USAF's boneyard? I'm sure its a lot bigger than this.....

Duh. Cross the highway, dope -- THATs where the big boys are. Cools to see teh ones already being cannibalized, with pieces parts all over.

My favorite find: and A-10 in the act of being pulled back to the retirement home...

(http://www.furballunderground.com/gallery2/data/media/33/a-10_retirement.jpg)

Lots of 52s, some A6s with wingfolds, and -- tho i hardly believe it -- looks llike some starfires with wingtanks. Delta darts, broncos...man! What a great way to kill time on a slow afternoon!

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Cobra412 on January 24, 2006, 05:36:10 PM

Half of those Pakistani F-16s have already been put into service elsewhere.

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: cav58d on January 24, 2006, 05:48:28 PM

Can someone leave a screenie of some of the tomcats?

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Kurt on January 24, 2006, 09:07:41 PM

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Originally posted by Simaril
Cool find.

See lots of F-4s, a-10s, f-14s -- sorry morph -- and maybe some a4s.

Not sure about these -- the planform looks like f/a-18s, but only see a single tail. Whaddya think?

....(http://www.furballunderground.com/gallery2/data/media/33/are_therse_hornets.jpg)


BTW, anybody have the location of the USAF's boneyard? I'm sure its a lot bigger than this.....

Absolutely F-16's

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Pooh21 on January 24, 2006, 10:19:05 PM

here is something you dont see everyday

45 25'31,33 N

122 38'03,90 W

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Simaril on January 24, 2006, 11:24:24 PM

Cav, the more I look at em the more I think they're F-111s. The ones at top definitely are....

There are several simular zones, but this ones representative

(http://www.furballunderground.com/gallery2/data/media/33/f-111_boneyard.jpg)

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Roscoroo on January 24, 2006, 11:29:33 PM

a 10's

F-111's

more F-111's

these 2 rows are a mix .. some look like T-39's

then we get to the

Tomcats .... F-14's

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: airbumba on January 25, 2006, 12:20:52 AM

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Originally posted by Roscoroo
a 10's

F-111's

more F-111's

these 2 rows are a mix .. some look like T-39's

then we get to the

Tomcats .... F-14's

Are they tiger ll's in bottom row? The 5 in a row .

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Morpheus on January 25, 2006, 07:45:44 AM

I hate the last picture. I think we should go save the poor cats. :cry

so gay.

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Pooface on January 25, 2006, 08:31:18 AM

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Originally posted by Morpheus
I hate the last picture. I think we should go save the poor cats. :cry

so gay.

im game if you are. tomcat's my fav military jet. i don't understand why they dont strip them down of military gear and sell them on as private A/C

bloody stupid if you ask me, could make millions

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Slash27 on January 25, 2006, 11:40:48 AM

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Originally posted by Morpheus
I hate the last picture. I think we should go save the poor cats. :cry

so gay.

I'll drive if you buy the gas. Pictures of that place honestly make me sick to my stomach.

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: icemaw on January 25, 2006, 02:20:11 PM

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Originally posted by Pooh21
here is something you dont see everyday

45 25'31,33 N

122 38'03,90 W

whats so unusual about this spot?

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: gweibe on January 25, 2006, 04:42:45 PM

Looks like a B-17 without the forward fuselage over a gas station in Milwaukie, OR.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==1056

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Pooh21 on January 25, 2006, 07:06:11 PM

its an MA lemming porking fuel!

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: gweibe on January 26, 2006, 08:17:39 PM

and NOE :D

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Morpheus on January 26, 2006, 08:43:05 PM

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Originally posted by Slash27
I'll drive if you buy the gas. Pictures of that place honestly make me sick to my stomach.

NO ****.

FUUUUUUUG I hate seeing tomcats on the chopping line. Its just wrong man.

Give me one dont shop the watermelon up! I'll put it in my front yard.

Edit: The worst is seeing pics of cats rolling in with the pilots and reo's stepping out of them for the last time. That sucks. I'd be crying like a little *****.

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Stang on January 26, 2006, 08:55:43 PM

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Originally posted by Morpheus
I'd be crying like a little *****.

Which would be different from normal how?

;)

Title: If you have Google Earth
Post by: Casper1 on January 27, 2006, 08:09:48 AM

i understand your point and your feeligns morph...

problem is, the cats are old and outdated...i love em too, but...with Raptors, new F-18E's and the eventual JSF...who needs em?  

Sell them to private parties...hmmmm...now THAT would be a way for the government to make up some deficit dollars!

Problem is - who maintains them?  Who makes sure there are no secretish equipment on the ex-mil birds?  who is to say a private dude wouldnt go postal and refit the cat with black market weaponry systems and shoot down airliners and vulch airfields???

damn that prolly wont work...

Title: BTW, anybody have the location of the USAF's boneyard? I'm sure its a lot bigger than
Post by: NAVCAD on January 27, 2006, 08:10:17 AM

Davis Mothan AFB, Tuscon Arizona.  And yes it it Huge.  You can see the B-52 tails from I-8.  Actually toured the bone yard when I was active duty flying for the Navy.  Way cool to see what is left of B-17s next to F-111, F-14, A-7, A-10s.


V/R

NAVCAD


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