[simpits-tech] F-15 site update...

[Roy Coates]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Brian Sikkema wrote:

> >I'm shocked that they left the last remaining example of a type sitting
> >outside in the weather.  You'd better not leave it outside either!
>
> Ever see the XC-99, Gene? Cargo transport based on the B-36. Same deal - one ever even MADE, let alone surviving, sat outside to
> rust away. Thank goodness the Air Force Museum finally got their hands on it. It's in peices now, awaiting restoration. I never
> saw it all together, but just looking at the chunks of it, you can tell it was a MASSIVE plane. Gonna be a massive restoration
> project, too...
>
> But as for plane abuse, nothing tops the Memphis Belle... they got their hands on that, now, too, and they're doing a fine job
> with it. But the fine citizens of Memphis gave them quite a job. They said if it were any other B-17 they would have just written
> it off as scrap... :( It's only because of it's history that they're even bothering to restore it.


heritage is difficult - it costs money and gives no financial return.

as for big aircraft... tell me about it!  The britannia is 215' long and
145' wide, and the fuse was in three pieces when we got it.

I never want to see another rivet as long as I live...


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Roy Coates.
Dept of Engineering.
Liverpool University.
E-Mail: r.coates at liv.ac.uk
Tel: 0151 794 4862
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