a flight into the twilight zone

[britfrog 180]

sad

 

[hifly 925]

Tis sad Nigel to see an old workhorse sent to the knackers yard, (and I don't mean you), but checking on Flightradar there's still quite a few plying the skies. Flew on a Thompson 767 to the Canaries and judging by the written language on the seat back it was ex Garuda. I hoped that Thompson had a better maintenance contractor than Garuda.

[brett 2,315]

I was surprised some of them still powered up, nice find Nigel.

[Quickmarch 488]

Thanks, Nigel,

I remember the first boneyard I saw - in Tucson, Arizona. In the 70’s it was mostly military aircraft with a few commercial carriers (including Air Canada) represented with 707s, DC-9s and others from that era.

You're right - Sad.

[allardjd 1,853]

I had always thought that the aluminum from scrapped aircraft would plausibly find its way into an honorable re-use in new aircraft, or at least into beer cans, which might also be acceptable. According to something I have read somewhere in the past, it's nothing like that - a large amount of scrap aluminum from aircraft goes into automobile trim. What a deplorable end for something that was once part of a proud aircraft.

John

[hifly 925]

These boneyards would be a good resource for tubeliner cockpit builders.

 

But yes, it is poignant to see these once proud ships being butchered.