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Title: Awesome noseart resting in Arizona
Post by: jd on October 15, 2012, 08:38:38 AM

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

Title: Re: Awesome noseart resting in Arizona
Post by: 9thAFE on October 15, 2012, 08:58:59 AM

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.

Title: Re: Awesome noseart resting in Arizona
Post by: Slate on October 15, 2012, 09:36:46 AM

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

   But the Boobies made me happy!  :O

Title: Re: Awesome noseart resting in Arizona
Post by: matt on October 15, 2012, 09:59:22 AM

 :aok

Title: Re: Awesome noseart resting in Arizona
Post by: Krusty on October 15, 2012, 11:34:26 AM

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.

Title: Re: Awesome noseart resting in Arizona
Post by: Daddkev on October 15, 2012, 11:44:45 AM

 :O :O :O :O I love Boobies !!!!!  :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x

Title: Re: Awesome noseart resting in Arizona
Post by: lyric1 on October 15, 2012, 12:09:20 PM

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

Title: Re: Awesome noseart resting in Arizona
Post by: Babalonian on October 15, 2012, 05:43:34 PM

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).

Title: Re: Awesome noseart resting in Arizona
Post by: jd on October 16, 2012, 09:41:39 AM

Quote from: Babalonian on October 15, 2012, 05:43:34 PM

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). :cry

Slipstrm

Title: Re: Awesome noseart resting in Arizona
Post by: Phoenix 7 on October 17, 2012, 01:48:15 AM

*sniff* :cry

Title: Re: Awesome noseart resting in Arizona
Post by: uptown on October 17, 2012, 05:17:20 AM

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

Title: Re: Awesome noseart resting in Arizona
Post by: Babalonian on October 17, 2012, 06:17:49 PM

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.   :D   :noid