XC-99 to be scrapped!

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:24 pm

If it is restored in say 20 years, many of us here wont be around to see it. I'm beginning to wonder if I will see the Swoose restored in my lifetime.

Nathan · **Posted:** Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:54 pm

Pat Carry wrote:

If it is restored in say 20 years, many of us here wont be around to see it. I'm beginning to wonder if I will see the Swoose restored in my lifetime.

That would suck! :shock:

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:58 pm

You will see the Swoose. It is next after the Belle. As for the XC-99, I have no clue. But I will say that it is not nor was it ever being scrapped. That comes from that dude on fb.

Nathan · **Posted:** Tue Dec 09, 2014 2:14 pm

mustangdriver wrote:

You will see the Swoose. It is next after the Belle. As for the XC-99, I have no clue. But I will say that it is not nor was it ever being scrapped. That comes from that dude on fb.

Sounds like good news. I just think people are assuming it has no chance of being saved and are writing it off(including me) if it's going to the desert then there MUST be future plans of preservation for it. :drink3:

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Tue Dec 09, 2014 2:45 pm

mustangdriver wrote:

You will see the Swoose. It is next after the Belle. As for the XC-99, I have no clue. But I will say that it is not nor was it ever being scrapped. That comes from that dude on fb.

That is very questionable at best. The Memphis Belle is still 3+ years away from completion and the Swoose is a 15 year restoration job at least.

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:15 am

evergreen made room for Hughes's Hercules..... indoors!!....... surely a museum could make room for the 99!! just because it's not a glamorous bomber, etc, doesn't mean it deserves the :crispy:

the torch.

Mike · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 8:54 am **Posts:** 3331

1) Noboby (apart from guy on Facebook who heard it from a guy who was told it by another guy) is saying it will be scrapped

2) Unlike the H-4, which was stored in a climate-controlled hangar, the XC-99 needs major (= expensive) work before it can be reassembled for display.

p51 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2014 8:03 pm

mustangdriver wrote:

That comes from that dude on fb.

Ah yes. "I read on Facebook" is the modern version of, "I heard this from someone who knows someone who swears it is true..."
Old fishing stories are more reliable.

ZRX61 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:16 am **Posts:** 2308

tom d. friedman wrote:

evergreen made room for Hughes's Hercules..... indoors!!.......

& just filed for bankruptcy...

AURktman · **Posted:** Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:55 pm

p51 wrote:

mustangdriver wrote:

That comes from that dude on fb.

Ah yes. "I read on Facebook" is the modern version of, "I heard this from someone who knows someone who swears it is true..."
Old fishing stories are more reliable.

And the more ubiquitous from the car shows, "My uncle's friend had one of those when I was in high school, its a 1962 Mercury Mustang with a numbers matching 351 Cleveland." :axe:

Glad to see the XC-99 is going to be put someplace safe until she can be in one piece again.

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