Dead Airplanes: What to do with them?

[Red Squirrel]

There is 1 big problem.. Fuel. There is none in the planes.

Also, no need for hot wiring. Assuming you know what you are doing, its literally just pushing some buttons.

Yeah true, was not thinking of that. You can't exactly just carry a jerry can in the back of your truck and go fill up a plane. LOL. Wrong gas, and not enough!

I remember when I went to Toronto airport, I could see just the back end of this giant plane on the other side. OMG some of these are so HUGE! It's incredible they fly. It would be kind of cool to convert a plane into a house. I think it's been done, actually.

 

[SonicIce]

Davis Monthan is cool. Across the street is Pima County Aircraft Museum.
Somebody realized that Air Force boneyard was a great resource, so they built a museum cross the street.
The boneyard donates a plane to the museum, or loans it. They take down two chain link fences and roll the plane across the county road. Instant museum display.
http://www.pimaair.org/

When I was flying down there I found a big commercial aircraft boneyard between Phoenix and Tuscon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinal_Airpark


http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=32.507572,-111.329463&spn=0.020846,0.045447&t=h&z=15

good find

 

[skyking]

good find

I was cruising along at 7500 feet between Phoenix Skyharbor and Tuscon, basically right along the highway. We spotted it and had to look it up.
Tuscon is a cool airport. it is one of those with the Air National Guard (ANG) on one side of the field and civil aviation on the other. We were in a downwind to land on one side of the field and a couple of F-16's were in a downwind on the opposite side, doing touch and gos. They fit us in between.

 

[ProfJohn]

That's interesting. I didn't know we decommissioned planes as a part of de-arming. I'd have thought it would be all missiles, or possibly tactical subs.

http://www.johnweeks.com/boneyard/

The most dramatic use of AMARC was the B-52 fleet reduction to meet the terms of the SALT treaties. Hundreds of the giant B-52 bombers were set out in the desert. A huge guillotine was used to chop off the wings, then chop the fuselage into pieces. The parts were then piled up neatly and left in place for months to allow Soviet satellites to verify the destruction of these strategic bombers.

 

[shortylickens]

Supposedly some of the best knives are made from aircraft grade aluminum. I wonder how many knives you could get from a 747.

 

[IronWing]

That's interesting. I didn't know we decommissioned planes as a part of de-arming. I'd have thought it would be all missiles, or possibly tactical subs.

I was living in Tucson when the program was getting underway. Squadrons of B-52s would come rumbling in at low altitude in the middle of the night. Based on the noise they made, I was surprised that they made it to the air base. We didn't exactly start with the best of the fleet.

 

[IronWing]

Supposedly some of the best knives are made from aircraft grade aluminum. I wonder how many knives you could get from a 747.

Don't be giving the terrorists ideas now.

 

[sdifox]

Aluminium and knives don't really mix.

 

[IronWing]

Aluminium and knives don't really mix.

Curses, foiled again!

 

[lxskllr]

Curses, foiled again!

:^D

To bad Oldsmobile's no more. They could have used them for car bodies :^P

 

[Rubycon]

Aluminium and knives don't really mix.

One shot...

Why not?

A softer material does not HOLD an edge however it can be easily brought to a very sharp edge that can cut through human skin inflicting severe damage instantly. That's its only purpose. Like a bomb. Its only purpose is one shot - to blow up and inflict severe damage.

Even scarier is a knife made of glass. It can be hidden on a person and not picked up be a metal detector. Not very practical to use as a knife was designed but deadly serving its "one shot" use.

 

[lxskllr]

One shot...



Even scarier is a knife made of glass. It can be hidden on a person and not picked up be a metal detector. Not very practical to use as a knife was designed but deadly serving its "one shot" use.

I've always wanted to make an obsidian knife, but I need to get the material first(I'd prefer to find it in the wild).

 

[Rubycon]

I've always wanted to make an obsidian knife, but I need to get the material first(I'd prefer to find it in the wild).

You would need a 2kW CO2 laser to do that.

 

[lxskllr]

You would need a 2kW CO2 laser to do that.

I think what I have in mind's a little more primitive. What I want is basically a giant arrowhead with a leather wrapped handle. It would be shaped by chipping it down.

 

[Rubycon]

I think what I have in mind's a little more primitive. What I want is basically a giant arrowhead with a leather wrapped handle. It would be shaped by chipping it down.

Obsidian has a concoidal fracture so you can chip it close to the shape you want then grind the remaining. Nice project though.

Making one from a fulgurite would be even more esoteric. Nearly as esoteric as this tangent of a thread jack.

 

[sdifox]

One shot...

Why not?

A softer material does not HOLD an edge however it can be easily brought to a very sharp edge that can cut through human skin inflicting severe damage instantly. That's its only purpose. Like a bomb. Its only purpose is one shot - to blow up and inflict severe damage.

Even scarier is a knife made of glass. It can be hidden on a person and not picked up be a metal detector. Not very practical to use as a knife was designed but deadly serving its "one shot" use.

Those are not really knives. Projectiles, sure. You have to be really weary of people who carry their own chopsticks around. they are very good for stabbing.

 

[shortylickens]

I was not thinking the thread would go this way.
Also. if you wanted to sneak a knife on board, get a plastic or ceramic knife.