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Title: Aviation noseart from Aircraft Graveyard in Kingman Arizona.
Post by: Hajo on July 05, 2021, 04:30:38 PM
I don't know if you could use this.  But it was very interesting to me.  Well worth the look even if you can't ID the noseart.  It's history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TJk1jqzjYU
Title: Re: Aviation noseart from Aircraft Graveyard in Kingman Arizona.
Post by: JimmyD3 on July 05, 2021, 05:43:57 PM
 :aok
Title: Re: Aviation noseart from Aircraft Graveyard in Kingman Arizona.
Post by: turt21 on July 05, 2021, 06:58:29 PM
Are those 17's still there?
Title: Re: Aviation noseart from Aircraft Graveyard in Kingman Arizona.
Post by: SIK1 on July 05, 2021, 07:15:30 PM
No. They've been gone for a long time.

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Title: Re: Aviation noseart from Aircraft Graveyard in Kingman Arizona.
Post by: Vraciu on July 05, 2021, 09:37:36 PM
Quote from: turt21 on July 05, 2021, 06:58:29 PM
Are those 17's still there?

They were all melted into aluminum ingots the size of a small wash basin or even a baking tin.  This documentary on the Confederate Air Force from 1982 shows how it was done. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OD-lx95yewY

Title: Re: Aviation noseart from Aircraft Graveyard in Kingman Arizona.
Post by: oboe on July 05, 2021, 11:13:33 PM
Quote from: Vraciu on July 05, 2021, 09:37:36 PM
They were all melted into aluminum ingots the size of a small wash basin or even a baking tin.  This documentary on the Confederate Air Force from 1982 shows how it was done. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OD-lx95yewY

I can't even click on that link.   Just to think of what those young men went through together in those planes.   
Title: Re: Aviation noseart from Aircraft Graveyard in Kingman Arizona.
Post by: Vraciu on July 05, 2021, 11:20:09 PM
Quote from: oboe on July 05, 2021, 11:13:33 PM
I can't even click on that link.   Just to think of what those young men went through together in those planes.

The video only shows them doing it to postwar types but it gives you the idea of what the Colonels were facing trying to save these airplanes.