F-100 and F-105 destroyed in the UK

Fouga23 · **Posted:** 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

Nathan · **Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:42 am

And it continues...........

quemerford · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:19 pm **Posts:** 1601

Already reported on F-105 DB update.

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2016 9:14 am

Who could we complain to?

Randy Haskin · **Posted:** 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.

Fouga23 · **Posted:** 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

DH82EH · **Posted:** 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

Wilson · **Posted:** 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.

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Thu Oct 06, 2016 10:25 am

MUTHA F$%#&!@

Chris Brame · **Posted:** 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! :vom:

Randy Haskin · **Posted:** 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.

Nathan · **Posted:** 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.......

:angry:

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