B-52-D 56-0679 Yellow Rose Is she gone ?
Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:46 am
Greetings
I was going over some photos that I took at a open House at Carswell AFB in Fort Worth Texas in 1980 when the Tunder Birds were preforming and that was my FIRST taste of the CAF and Tora !Tora !Tora ! Was more excited of seeing Texas Raiders and Diamond Lil than the T Birds , Sorry for the rambeling........................any way the B-52 56-0679 Yellow Rose was their on Display Is she gone or still in Storage ?
I was going over some photos that I took at a open House at Carswell AFB in Fort Worth Texas in 1980 when the Tunder Birds were preforming and that was my FIRST taste of the CAF and Tora !Tora !Tora ! Was more excited of seeing Texas Raiders and Diamond Lil than the T Birds , Sorry for the rambeling........................any way the B-52 56-0679 Yellow Rose was their on Display Is she gone or still in Storage ?
Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:00 am
If she was a D model she's probably long gone. I believe they chopped all those up in the early '90s. 
SN
SN
Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:31 am
Baugher's site lists that aircraft as being scrapped. No date is listed.
Walt
Walt
Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:34 am
Figures
Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:35 am
Ugh.. makes me sick.
Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:43 am
Could you possibly be referring to 55-0679 which is currently being restored at the Riverside - March ARB in California?
Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:22 pm
AUuuuuuuuuuuHHHHhhhhhhhhh 
Well after looking at the Photos this might be the same one 
Do we know if their is any info on what SAC base that she was at in the late 70's early 80's ? The plane that I saw had Yellow Rose on both sides of the Cock pit and a Big single Yellow Rose 
Well after looking at the Photos this might be the same one Do we know if their is any info on what SAC base that she was at in the late 70's early 80's ? The plane that I saw had Yellow Rose on both sides of the Cock pit and a Big single Yellow Rose
Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:06 pm
No, it was scrapped when the museum closed. A friend of mine who still works for Lockheed sat in his car and watched a bulldozer tear her apart on his lunch hour. Very sad indeed. Why couldn't it have been saved.?! I could ask him if he remembers when exactly it was if anyone is interested...
Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:19 pm
Well it was nice dream while it lasted 
That is just wrong that when a Museum closes that most likely if the Gov is part of it then DESTROY it so nobody can injoy it else where 
That is just wrong that when a Museum closes that most likely if the Gov is part of it then DESTROY it so nobody can injoy it else where
Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:28 pm
AARH!!!! I knew I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up, when I saw the photo. <SIGH>