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

[delor lauchang]

I'll be the devils advocate, they might have sent it to China to pay part of
our debt, hehehe.
Dont think they will let it out of the boneyard without being a scrap parts,
none usable state, that is.

Delor

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:

> 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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