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But why? after all these years why did they still have those?
by nickthemagicman 5y ago
But why? after all these years why did they still have those?
- kasey_junk 5y agoIt’s a strategic asset. The same reason there are giant collections of old military planes out in the desert. You never know when you might need it.
- Roritharr 5y agoI wondered about those lately. Do you happen to know if they are really in a state to make them flightworthy again if push came to shove? I would have expected them to have deteriorated to a point where restoring them becomes a bigger effort than building new planes.
- slapfrog 5y agoIt's a dry climate and aluminum doesn't just rot. It would obviously take some money and work to bring planes out of mothballs, and probably in some cases unrepairable damage would be discovered, but I would expect most of the planes to successfully reactivate if the need was great enough. Those that couldn't be reactivated could be cannibalized for spare parts. Consider that the Iowa class battleships spent some decades deactivated, sitting in salt water, before being reactivated several times.
- dboreham 5y agoThey know what they're doing. But there aren't really old planes in the boneyard now. 1980s vintage and later plus a few muesum pieces that haven't been towed to the museum yet. The oddest thing out there is the tooling to make B1-B airframes.
- chrisseaton 5y agoWhy does anyone have an IP address? To use them.
- nickthemagicman 5y ago6% of the IPV4 space?