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Post by: SELECTOR on January 26, 2003, 10:57:26 AM: what is it
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Post by: ra on January 26, 2003, 11:23:12 AM: Looks like a P-40 graveyard.

ra
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Post by: pangea on January 26, 2003, 11:24:17 AM: P-40's with engines removed about to be scraped.
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Post by: Lizard3 on January 26, 2003, 11:38:55 AM: Nope, yer both wrong.

That my friends is a cry'n shame!:(
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Post by: Monk on January 26, 2003, 11:42:05 AM: Art?
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Post by: Viper17 on January 26, 2003, 01:46:03 PM: A Crying Shame.
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Post by: bigUC on January 26, 2003, 02:36:13 PM: Bish suicide mission?
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Post by: udet on January 26, 2003, 02:43:57 PM: i saw that same pic in a magazine two days ago. poor critters.
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Post by: Jester 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.
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Post by: M.C.202 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.

:p :D
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Post by: hazed- 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? :p
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Post by: Shiva 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.
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Post by: Reschke 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.
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Post by: maxtor on January 27, 2003, 02:06:42 PM: Quote
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.
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Post by: Shiva 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.
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Post by: Widewing on January 27, 2003, 04:11:20 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Lizard3
Nope, yer both wrong.

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

Ah, those are P-40s, looks like L,M and N models With the extended rear fuselage… Note the rudder is aft of the horizontal stabilizer, whereas earlier models, it was not.

They sure as hell aren’t F4Us. Neither are they old P-36s. Again, this is evident from the stretched aft fuselage.

My regards,

Widewing
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Post by: SELECTOR on January 27, 2003, 05:39:58 PM: p40s they are... the day after being introduced into AH:D
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Post by: icemaw on January 27, 2003, 06:06:12 PM: Now all you new guys follow your flight leader no matter what.
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Post by: superpug1 on January 28, 2003, 09:55:35 PM: Stp trying to name the planes. This sort of loss should be mourned for years.

I want a time machine with a hanger attached to it.
Anyone got one they would wanna sell to me.:D
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Post by: fffreeze220 on January 29, 2003, 12:18:46 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Viper17
A Crying Shame.

Thats my place after a good 109 run :)
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Post by: Fridaddy on January 30, 2003, 09:55:25 PM: Why did you post this?

I will be crying all night.

But then remember what they did to the PT boats.
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Post by: Angus on February 04, 2003, 04:42:04 AM: Wonder what the lads that scrapped them would think if they knew what the price tag is on a P38 today. After all, now we're digging them out of glaciers!!!
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Post by: frank3 on February 04, 2003, 04:48:50 AM: looks like a really bad flightschool
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Post by: BNM on February 04, 2003, 06:48:34 PM: Quote
Originally posted by bigUC
Bish suicide mission?

LMAO! I was thinking the same thing (if they were Typhs) :D
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Post by: Lghtning on February 04, 2003, 10:40:19 PM: *gasp* What did the p38 do to deserve that.. its innocent! :D