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PostPosted: Wed May 19, 2010 8:15 pm 
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That is strange about the C-131s/T-29s. I too thought that they'd all be long gone from AMARG at this point but who knows?

-Derek



Most of the aircraft listed and discussed are not in AMARG, but in surrounding scrape yards.



I found many types of aircraft in both areas. About 10 C-131's still in AMARC, also many S-2 Tracker types, and about 12 B-57's also. All could be seen in the actual AMARC area. Still plenty of F-4's and lots of F-111's. I did not see any F-14's though. :(

Hope that help! :D

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I will have to take a better look, only 131/29 I caught was on celebrity row, number of S-2s and P-2s still in AMARG. Even a handful of 123, excluding the Ranch Hand birds of course. Hard to believe all the Tomcats have come and gone. :cry: If you look due East of the Whiskey ramp about 240 yards that entire empty field was filled with CH-37s, all gone now.

This may not be news to you gents and ladies but I learned that you can go back to an earlier imagery time on Google Earth. Amazing to see what has happened between my DM days (97-01) and now.

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That would be great! :) Yeah I took another scan on google earth and could not find any F-14's. :( I really wish they would let people buy the planes. Some have been there 30+ years. :? Can't see a C-131 a threat to anyone. I am guessing some of these older types are there to keep parts for those that still fly. I know there are a few C-131 types still flying. Plus the S-2's are used as fire bombers. Still it would be great if they would sell them to collectors rather then scrap dealers. :roll: :x

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Nathan wrote:
That would be great! :) Plus the S-2's are used as fire bombers.



Nathan if I recall correctly Marsh did work right out in the yard on several of the machines intended for conversion or perhaps just parts. I assume it was Marsh any how.

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Plus the S-2's are used as fire bombers


Those S-2's are just in California right? From What I understand is that federal contract firefighters must be 4 engine airplanes....
I still think the S-3 would make a great firefighter....

Lot's of good use could be made of a lot of those airplanes.... :twisted:

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Imagine B-52 fire bombers!

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Very cool, indeed. I had not used Bing until now, the quality is very good. A couple of things I noticed ...

The overheads were not shot at the same time ars the Bird's Eye.

The time frame on the Bird's eye shots looks to be 2006/2007ish. There is a level of construction on the base itself I saw during a visit, which has since been expanded. There are a large number of F-111s, F-14s, and A-7s, C-141s, and T-33s in the Bird's Eye views - and those are about gone now from what I understand.

Fascinating stuff.


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One thing I have noticed from looking at a lot of Bing Maps Birds Eye photos is that not all of the Birds-Eye photos were taken at the same time. Also some locations only have Birds-Eye photos taken from one direction. Not all of the adjacent Birds-Eye photos are the same magnification (distance from the ground). As you scan along the Birds-Eye photos at one location, its again obvious they were not taken at the same time.

I've seen some Birds-Eye photos taken as late as Feb or Mar of 2010.

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