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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 23:09 pm 
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A very nice multimedia presentation of what they do out at Davis Monthan AFB the Aircraft Maintenece And Regeneration Center "the Boneyard"
and what DOES happen when you accidentally get sucked into a running F-4 engine?

http://www.kodak.com/US/plugins/flash/en/corp/features/sleepingGiants/meta.swf

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 00:20 am 
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Very sad place.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 13:48 pm 
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If there was ever a desperate shortage of aircraft for whatever reason, they'd probably take a lot out of that place and fix it and fly it.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 13:00 pm 
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It serves an important function Cent! Saves the country billions of dollars and gives us a capability that no other airfoce in the world has!

All those C-141s were grounded to excessive fatigue, which is why we have the awesome C-17!

Most are still flyable and could re-enter serivce if needed...

All the US Customs P-3 AWACs aircraft were retired P-3Bs and Cs that were taken back out of the desert and refurbished and returned to the air for their current service. Saves us 3 billion dollars in new construction costs vs refurbishment costs.

Same with the EP-3s... They are all refurbished older P-3s from the desert...

Add to this that nearly all spare parts for the current operators of the F-4 come from this location... (South Korea, Greece, Turkey, Germany, etc...)


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