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This is utter rot I learned of this a while ago but thought would share with the forum.
A sad end to one of the truly great interdiction bombers of their time, there would have been oodles of museums that would have taken an aircraft for display.
What a waste; https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&r...iG7TG59Q7jUBiA
I remember those...
Why not just cut them up and melt them down. All that trouble of months of planning, daily meetings, security, geo tabbing it's all pointless. Common sense tells me if the powers that be are that worried about them erase them from the earth. Am I missing something?
Doesn't make sense to me either. Run them through the chipper and smelt them to bar stock. Problem solved. Instead now, they're buried beside the Spitfires...more for us to find.
Yes the Burma Spitfires what happened to that lot or is it just a pipe dream....................:rolleyes:
Similar thing happened to the US inventory of US Lend Lease vehicles that we had up until the early 70's. Half tracks, Diamond T's, weasles, DUKW's etc etc. These all had to be disposed of according to rules laid down ears ago. In Germany they all had to go back to US Ordnance dumps at Wiesbaden instead of local disposal at Hamm and in the UK, disposal via specialised sites.
I trust that one of the workers at the disposal site will have cut out one of the RAAF roundels from the F-111fuselages prior to being buried. Then in 70 years time, present it to a museum, like those at the CAF museum nose art murals
When visited the Davis Monthan AFB neat Tucson about ten years ago, there were dozens/hundreds of F111s just sitting there in the desert.
As to handing stuff back. There were two US spec. F4s sitting on the tarmac at RAF Fairford for several years. Apparently we tried to hand them back to the US but over the years the paperwork had got lost. I guess they were part of that batch recovered from Davis Monthan for Falkland Islands AD in the 1980s.
Where they'll probably remain for some time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beerhunter
I was told that there is an unused M113 APC in the museum at Puckapunyal with about 10 miles on the clock. The story I got was that a petrol engine version was shipped by mistake, it arrived, off-loaded and inspected only to be ordered shipped back to 'Yank-land'. 'Yank-land' apparently politely declined, and said keep it; we'll ship you the correct diesel engine one at no extra cost.
Common sence is dead and buried right along with those F-111s. RIP.
True but under the purchase agreement with the US forbidden, A8-125 is the last one and is on display at the RAAF Museum at Point Cook in Victoria.Quote:
Originally Posted by CINDERS
Dick
The Perth RAAF Museum managed to snag an escape module where they raise the pilots side canopy for you to lean in and eyeball the inside other full size aircraft there a Catalina, Spitfire, Lancaster, Iroquois, DC-3, Vampire, Macchi, Canberra, Sopwith Camel and just about everything else from the Civillian side and War a modest $10 to get in and well worth a few hours as you can get pretty close to the displays to look inside them.
They charge a $100 for a 1/1 tour of the Lancaster but I am not that rich so contented with a walk around they also have a sky step where you can get across to the same height at the nose of the plane to have a front on over view pretty big aircraft what did surprise me was the size of the Catalina they are a very big bird.
I remember when I went with my brother to Pearce when he was on duty crew in the late 60's and had a tour of a Herc thats pretty big as well