[Stealth]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
No. They're there so the Russians can satellite-photgraph them, and make sure the Americans aren't playing silly buggers with their declared numbers of aircraft. It's part of some dis-armament program or other. The Americans also canibalise them for spares. They also pulled an F1-11 out of the boneyard and sold it to Australia, who added it to their fleet... just glad I'm not the one flying it

are we talking about the right place?

these planes are OLD... no F16s and stuff there... old boeings and stuff, but most of them are apparently in very good condition (of course they won't just start, you need to fix them) but they're just sitting in the desert and no one uses them.

i also heard they're in the desert because they don't rust.

you can go take pictures of them or something, and i THINK you can buy certain ones... i'm going to do some more information on them, put some pictures up here and stuff... you guys will flip, i remember, they're all lined up, "decomissioned" aircraft... it's awesome, somewhat spooky

[Anaz]

that microsoft terraserver thing is scary....I put my adress in, and it found it...

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Analazon
that microsoft terraserver thing is scary....I put my adress in, and it found it...

That's cause it's a deliberate misspelling. In internal memos they refer to it as the terror server

[Petrarch of the VBB]

For a ship scrap yard, think of that episode of TNG, where the Enterprise goes to some Fed yard, run by a Mr. Dockachin. He is very irritating. There are ships all over it, just drifting, or being used as floating cupboards.

[ZylonBane]

Umm... yeah. We're trying to come up with names. Not descriptions. Naaaaaammmeeeess.

gives Petrarch a lolly

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Fine, "Vessel Dismemberment and Disfiguration facility."

[Stealth]

Originally posted by ZylonBane
Umm... yeah. We're trying to come up with names. Not descriptions. Naaaaaammmeeeess.

gives Petrarch a lolly

but we're done coming up with "names"...

we're going for descriptions now!


(remember, this is HLP, and HLP is known to move off-topic )

[Grunt]

Originally posted by Stealth



(remember, this is HLP, and HLP is known to move off-topic )

Yes. And it is also a place where Freespacers just come to ... hmmm ... chat.
So come on with those scrapyard stories:D

Or may we go on with pilot jargon ?
http://vweb1.hiway.co.uk/aviation/pterms2.html

[Shrike]

Originally posted by Stealth
(remember, this is HLP, and HLP is known to move off-topic )

That doesn't mean you have to help it go off-topic.