This is the place where the majority of the warbird (aircraft that have survived military service) discussions will take place. Specialized forums may be added in the new future
Sat Dec 08, 2012 9:29 am
The 'rolling BONE' transported by road to KBFI last year is @ Boeings Tukwila structural facility (a rock toss from MoF) in a structural test jig trying to figure out how to keep them in service into 2040.
Sat Dec 08, 2012 11:16 am
Easy, convert them into B-52's!
Sat Dec 08, 2012 9:20 pm
I was the responsible assembly team leader at Martin Marietta building the horizontals, verticals, and mode control vane and know for a fact that there are no spares of these assemblies and they are to complex to build without the tooling that was scrapped at the end of the program.
Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:07 am
alang wrote:I was the responsible assembly team leader at Martin Marietta building the horizontals, verticals, and mode control vane and know for a fact that there are no spares of these assemblies and they are to complex to build without the tooling that was scrapped at the end of the program.
Boeing now owns Rockwell and, it's only our tax money so the DoD doesn't care
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