<div>I'll be the devils advocate, they might have sent it to China to pay part of our debt, hehehe.</div>
<div>Dont think they will let it out of the boneyard without being a scrap parts, none usable state, that is.</div>
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<div>Delor<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Gene Buckle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geneb@deltasoft.com">geneb@deltasoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, <a href="mailto:dabigboy@cox.net">dabigboy@cox.net</a> wrote:<br><br>>><br>>> I suspect that if you buy it at scrap metal prices, you'll be required to<br>
>> certify that it's actually turned into scrap metal. A couple of F-15A<br>>> models went up for scrap auction a few years ago. As part of the<br>>> purchase, you were required to have a 3rd party validate their<br>
>> "conversion" to scrap metal (ie. ground up into tiny bits) before you were<br>>> allowed to take them off the AMARC property.<br>>><br>>> g.<br>><br>> Drat, you are probably right. Sounds like something the gub'ment would<br>
> do. But are you saying the planes must be pureed *before* being removed,<br>> or that a third party must certify that they will be pureed *after* they<br>> are removed? If the latter, well, does it matter how LONG it takes for<br>
> you to get the plane to scrap? ;)<br>><br>Ah, no. There are contractors at AMARC that handle this. :)<br><br>> This reminds me of the horror stories I heard about the post-WWII days<br>> where they would take a fleet of P-38s and literally bulldoze them into<br>
> a pit and bury them, or smelt them all down for metal. Wonder how long<br>> before the F-111 and similar planes become expensive collectors items<br>> and a short-sighted system is slapping itself for trashing thousands of<br>
> planes that would then have been worth orders of magnitude more than<br>> their scrap value..........<br><br>Those F-14s that we pulled from service a few years ago? Wings chopped<br>off with a drop blade and the fuselages shoved whole, engines and<br>
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