I saw that on Face book. Really is amazing there are that many planes sitting. I would like to get in there with a few tools. Probably plenty of good instruments and radios wasting away. Hmmm? I wonder if you could reuse all those aluminum panels on a RV 10 build?
DAMN another great idea gone to the crapper.The radios and instruments in large aircraft run on totally different power systems, not 12 or 24 volt DC, and won't work in your spam can or homebuilt. The radios are big boxes in an avionics bay and use remote control and reading heads in the cockpit. The airspeed indicator will read up to some ridiculous figure and the needle would barely move in your airplane. The altimeter might work OK and the VSI will be some 0-6000 or 0-10,000 FPM thing. The aluminum fuselage panels are really thick and your RV would weigh more empty than its design gross weight. If you could bend the stuff in the first place.
There isn't much useable stuff other than some of the smaller hardware.
Dan
For some reason I was surprised to see B-1 bombers in a bone yard.
why are they being saved? spare parts?
Amusingly, they have a ladder leading to nothing and some other stuff around a display of what is supposed to be a stealth fighter.
I've toured the graveyard in Tucson and the air museum it's connected to. The magnitude of the graveyard is really amazing from the ground.
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