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For this side of the pond, there's this:

The British Military Powerboat Trust

http://www.bmpt.org.uk/index.htm
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Just a reminder you can find these gems via the Locator...

http://www.aerialvisuals.ca//Locator.php

...there is a map link for each location.

If you know of something that is not listed there, then let me know via...

http://www.aerialvisuals.ca//LocatorForm.php

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As I was reading down this, I was thinking to myself, man, Mike is going to have a heart attack if you dont go to his page and update it with this information on these babies! and then , bang here is Mike :)
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Another one here in my home state. An F-86 in front of the "Michigan's Own Military and Space Museum" in Frankenmuth.


That is a Canadair Sabre, perhaps a Mk 6.

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F-86D 52-3784 in a sandbox at Palm View Park in West Covina, CA:

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It's been there since 1961, per the Sabres Worldwide site: http://f-86.tripod.com/usa.html
It looks like it's been covered in that spray-on cement they use to make swimming pools :shock: .

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That's just wrong...

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The only good I can see of that is that:

1. It's not totally destroyed yet
2. Some children might get the idea to like old aircraft

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Yes, it is in fact covered in Gunite. There was also an F9F like that in So-Cal as I recall but I don't remember where.
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Fort Knox, KY, Patton Museum, if you have any interest in seeing the Tanks at the Patton Museum click on the link below

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Patton Museum this will take a minute or two to open as it has a lot of photographs
http://www.com-central.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=7262&highlight=armyjunk2
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the sand box toy is the most disgraceful example of a so called preserved historic artifact i've ever seen. maybe i'll wipe my keester with their city flag or logo.

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This Fairey Firefly has been an attraction in the main street of Griffith, New South Wales in Australia for, at least, 35 years.
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This bird needs to be saved. What a cool airplane!

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after re - cruising this thread it looks as if the sand box sabre is a little smoothed out lines wise. look at the leading edges etc. did somebody fiberglass over key areas where the little rug rats could get boo boos???

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the sand box toy is the most disgraceful example of a so called preserved historic artifact i've ever seen. maybe i'll wipe my keester with their city flag or logo.
Once again, if the city hadn't put it to this use it would be beer cans. And how would you get the cement off now? With a 10 pound sledge hammer? Could be a corroded mess inside, but who knows. I wish I had one of those to play in as a kid!
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Yes, it is in fact covered in Gunite. There was also an F9F like that in So-Cal as I recall but I don't remember where.


I am guessing this is the one...
http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/Locator.php ... sen%20Park

Other F9Fs in CA include...
http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/Locator.php ... A,Type=F9F

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i'd settle for the beer can......... at least it's origin as a souvinir would be appreciated. :wink:

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Wasn't the FH-1 Phantom now in the Naval Air Museum rescued from a similar fate? Seems to me I remember reading that one of the challenges faced by restorers was that the cockpit had been filled with concrete.

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