Scrapping retired jets

[anonymous-user]

Legend has it there's at least one F4 buried in the peat at the end of MPA's main runway.

[PaulG40]

This is Tornado F3 ZE728... now a bell.

[aeropilot]

anonymous said:

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F.3's piled up after Reduce to Produce.

[K50 DEL]

pablo said:

do I come to your work and tell you how to sweep up?

Am I picking up a rather obscure Billy Connolly reference there or is it just a coincidence?

[mickrick]

I´d love to get my hands on an Allison 250 C20. Anyone know where the helicopter scrapyard is

[mph1977]

pablo said:

IanMorewood said:

Most retired aircraft find themselves being used for instructional purposes for a while before being robbed for spares. Eventually the bare skeleton will end up crushed and recycled.

would you take your driving test in car thats failed its MoT?

has someone confused the use of aircraft for flight training with the use of no longer airworthy aircraft for repair / damage control / firefighting / systems maintaiance training ?

or is one just being particularly thick today ...

[grumpy52]

I can remember back in the sixties aircraft being flown into RAF Catterick to end their days being used for fire training .
If it was a larger aircraft that required the full length of runway they would close the A1 while the plane landed.
Good fun for us brats exploring the woods and perimeter for aircraft to "fly "