F-100 and F-105 destroyed in the UK
Wed Oct 05, 2016 6:27 am
2 gateguards at RAF Croughton were broken up this past week 
Image: http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?140342-RAF-Croughton-F-100-and-F-105-removed-from-main-gate
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Re: F-100 and F-105 destroyed in the UK
Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:42 am
And it continues...........
Re: F-100 and F-105 destroyed in the UK
Wed Oct 05, 2016 9:11 am
Already reported on F-105 DB update.
Re: F-100 and F-105 destroyed in the UK
Wed Oct 05, 2016 9:14 am
Who could we complain to?
Re: F-100 and F-105 destroyed in the UK
Wed Oct 05, 2016 11:09 am
Warbird Kid wrote:Who could we complain to?
As they're all ready destroyed, what good would it do?
The USAF has, on many occasions, told us what it thinks of preservation of its own heritage, so my guess is that any complaints would fall on entirely deaf ears.
Re: F-100 and F-105 destroyed in the UK
Wed Oct 05, 2016 4:23 pm
complaints go to the NMUSAF. I'm sure a lot of European museums would love to have them, but it's easier to destroy them
Re: F-100 and F-105 destroyed in the UK
Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:09 pm
Does it strike anyone else as strange, how eager they are to chop up old planes, then on the other hand let private individuals fly their own old machines in heritage flights?
Seems just a bit hypocritical.
Andy
Seems just a bit hypocritical.
Andy
Re: F-100 and F-105 destroyed in the UK
Wed Oct 05, 2016 9:10 pm
But wait! There's more!
Sometime in the last few weeks, MacDill AFB in Tampa decided their F-4E was suffering from corrosion and needed to go. Photos by "jjszalay" over on Hyperscale.
Sometime in the last few weeks, MacDill AFB in Tampa decided their F-4E was suffering from corrosion and needed to go. Photos by "jjszalay" over on Hyperscale.
Re: F-100 and F-105 destroyed in the UK
Thu Oct 06, 2016 10:25 am
MUTHA F$%#&!@
Re: F-100 and F-105 destroyed in the UK
Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:01 am
Nathan Decker wrote:F-4E-32-MC s/n 66-0302
*1971-72: Flew with the Thunderbirds acrobatic team.
*1975: USAF 1st TFW.
*USAF 56th TFW.
*Assigned as a ground trainer to Hill AFB, UT.
*9/23/1977: Written off.
*Currently preserved at MacDill AFB, FL.
Not anymo-ore!
Re: F-100 and F-105 destroyed in the UK
Thu Oct 06, 2016 3:31 pm
DH82EH wrote:Does it strike anyone else as strange, how eager they are to chop up old planes, then on the other hand let private individuals fly their own old machines in heritage flights?
Seems just a bit hypocritical.
Andy
If it were up to the AF, they would not support any flyable ex-USAF aircraft in private ownership.
Because there all ready are, and they want to occasionally pay lip service to "heritage", they continue the Heritage Flight program.
Ask anyone from Collings how much the USAF Historian and Heritage Flight office like them flying the Phantom.
Re: F-100 and F-105 destroyed in the UK
Thu Oct 06, 2016 7:06 pm
The day when there are more posts of scrapping aircraft on WIX then there are posts about preservation.......
