[simpits-tech] F-111 cockpit shells/Tucson AMARC

[Gene Buckle]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, dabigboy at cox.net wrote:

>>
>> I suspect that if you buy it at scrap metal prices, you'll be required to
>> certify that it's actually turned into scrap metal.  A couple of F-15A
>> models went up for scrap auction a few years ago.  As part of the
>> purchase, you were required to have a 3rd party validate their
>> "conversion" to scrap metal (ie. ground up into tiny bits) before you were
>> allowed to take them off the AMARC property.
>>
>> g.
>
> Drat, you are probably right. Sounds like something the gub'ment would 
> do. But are you saying the planes must be pureed *before* being removed, 
> or that a third party must certify that they will be pureed *after* they 
> are removed? If the latter, well, does it matter how LONG it takes for 
> you to get the plane to scrap? ;)
>
Ah, no.  There are contractors at AMARC that handle this. :)

> This reminds me of the horror stories I heard about the post-WWII days 
> where they would take a fleet of P-38s and literally bulldoze them into 
> a pit and bury them, or smelt them all down for metal. Wonder how long 
> before the F-111 and similar planes become expensive collectors items 
> and a short-sighted system is slapping itself for trashing thousands of 
> planes that would then have been worth orders of magnitude more than 
> their scrap value..........

Those F-14s that we pulled from service a few years ago?  Wings chopped 
off with a drop blade and the fuselages shoved whole, engines and 
everything into an industrial shredder.

g.


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