[AT] O/T Trying to find a good used backhoe

[HaliganBar at aol.com]

Years ago I was TDY to Davis Monthan AFB for a week. The bone yard was about 
the greatest thing and the saddest thing I'd ever seen. It was awesome seeing 
all the old planes mothballed...tall-tailed B-52's as far as you could 
see..F-100's waiting to be modified into target drones..and virtually every other 
kind of military aircraft I'd ever heard of. The sad part was that very few of 
the planes would ever leave under their own power...if only they could talk, I'd 
bet there were some great stories. I did get to see an old Navy S-2 takeoff 
with an N-number spray painted on the side...probably going to be a fire 
bomber. Some things (like old tractor and old airplanes) just shouldn't be scraped.

Thanks for the ramble,
Karl

In a message dated 7/21/05 9:17:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
cmonson at hvc.rr.com writes:

> I watched the History Channel briefly this afternoon and they
> had a program on there showing them chewing up B-52s with an excavator
> that had those jaws that act as shears. It sure did a number on those
> big aircraft. If I were you, Ron, and I wanted to turn my duster into
> scrap, that's what I would use. grins.
> 
>   Looked to me like they were a part of the program at or near
> Davis Monthan and they were both scrapping and salvaging military
> aircraft - lots of them.
> 
> Cecil
>