Everybody's Jumping on the Buried, Boxed Spitfire Gravytrain

[muddyboots]

Don't forget the dozens of Bee-Twenny-Nines sitting on some base in Cali-phone-ya...right next to that stack of crated $50 jeeps.


Oh, wait. There WAS a bunch and there WAS a big pile of scrap that used ta be...

Some of em are even still there!

Wasn't that also Col. Rohr's claim a few years back?

I don't know about Col Rohr, but I am a first hand witness to the existence of at least one. It's sitting out on a range, with a missing tail. I saw it back when I was doing an arch dig nearby. I think our guide said it had been exposed to a nuclear simulation which blew the tail off and over the hill behind it. Still there, as far as I know.

[cooper9411]

Reportedly there are 2 complete and 1 partial airframe at China Lake! Highly doubt any one will be able to recover any of them

[B-29 Super Fort]

Reportedly there are 2 complete and 1 partial airframe at China Lake! Highly doubt any one will be able to recover any of them

Love to see photos of them some day. I wonder if they could be spotted with Google Maps.

[TAdan]

Reportedly there are 2 complete and 1 partial airframe at China Lake! Highly doubt any one will be able to recover any of them

Love to see photos of them some day. I wonder if they could be spotted with Google Maps.

Yes they can. I took a look on Google maps earlier today, just search for NAWS China Lake. Towards the SE of the runways is an area with some old aircraft, looks like a couple C-47's and C-130's and most of a B-29 and C-97.

Out on the range appears to be a burnt out B-29, the shape is there, you can make out the tail and nacelles.


I just searched for images on Google and tried to find areas that matched at China Lake.

[B-29 Super Fort]

Reportedly there are 2 complete and 1 partial airframe at China Lake! Highly doubt any one will be able to recover any of them

Love to see photos of them some day. I wonder if they could be spotted with Google Maps.

Yes they can. I took a look on Google maps earlier today, just search for NAWS China Lake. Towards the SE of the runways is an area with some old aircraft, looks like a couple C-47's and C-130's and most of a B-29 and C-97.

Out on the range appears to be a burnt out B-29, the shape is there, you can make out the tail and nacelles.


I just searched for images on Google and tried to find areas that matched at China Lake.

Thanks, I'll give it a look.

[muddyboots]

Reportedly there are 2 complete and 1 partial airframe at China Lake! Highly doubt any one will be able to recover any of them

Love to see photos of them some day. I wonder if they could be spotted with Google Maps.

Yes they can. I took a look on Google maps earlier today, just search for NAWS China Lake. Towards the SE of the runways is an area with some old aircraft, looks like a couple C-47's and C-130's and most of a B-29 and C-97.

Out on the range appears to be a burnt out B-29, the shape is there, you can make out the tail and nacelles.


I just searched for images on Google and tried to find areas that matched at China Lake.

Is this the same one I saw, I wonder?

[Noha307]

I'm not really sure where this discussion went...I'm confused.

I don't mind, I just would like to know what we are talking about now.

[B-29 Super Fort]

I'm not really sure where this discussion went...I'm confused.

I don't mind, I just would like to know what we are talking about now.

B-29's at China Lake.