Slinky's Socorro, New Mexico Pics

[B29Gunner]

Some of the rarer types, like the B-45, and B-50 pieces, are destined not to be scrapped, as some people at NMT realize how rare some of these aircraft have become, many airframes, however, are well beyond recovery.

Did the article include any pics of the B-50 bits??

[Boneyard]

Use Google Earth and check out these Lat/Longs

34° 3'38.39"N 106°55'52.04"W
34° 3'41.56"N 106°55'44.74"W
34° 2'30.09"N 106°57'6.01"W

I think these are the piles of aircraft fuselages left at Socorro.

Chris.

[Chris Brame]

If you compare the images on Google Earth to those on local.live.com, it looks like the largest group of fuselages is no longer there. Just don't try to use the lat/long coordinates with local.live; I pasted them into its search and it put me in New Jersey rather than New Mexico!

[cadet77]

In the Google Earth time line "historical images" the groups at all three locations are gone by 12-20-2006.



cadet77

[RobC]

In August, 2006, I stopped in Socorro on my way up I-25. We were eating breakfast and I was looking out the window at this flatbed with a big, square load that was wrapped in that orange plastic stuff that the highway dept. uses for debris fence. Something caught my eye and I walked across the parking lot to take a closer look. The load was big squares of compressed airplane. I was pretty shocked. There were two more trucks parked down the street with the same thing. Nobody around to ask questions of. I consoled myself with the view that every star-and-bar I could see was post-war and the level of construction indicated jets (not a big fan of Kerosene). Interesting that the timing was just about the same as the original discussion. The scrapping was happening right at that time.