Oddly enough, this is for a carnie outfit 🙂
I’ve no idea what the hell they used for primer, but I hit a spot with #80grit on a DA sander & it barely scratched it… plus the primer is about 0.040 thick.
They weren’t all scrapped….there’s a few around with a lot less work needed if you need a lawn ornament !
The majority were. The irony of that deal is the magnesium ended up going to Vietnam for use in explosives….
The main issue with the skins is they crack right along the edge of formers/stringers etc leaving a 9/16in wide piece of magnesium riveted in place.
Plan for now is *lawn ornament* but open to offers. It has USN Vietnam history. Probably getting a USMC paint job.
It came out of that yard in Az where dozens of others were scrapped a couple of years back.
The Four Feathers.
To most Americans, even those in the USAF, all ‘aircraft’ are ‘jets’, the two terms are synonymous to them. I well remember when we took the P-63 to Alconbury airshow in the 1980s, all the ground crew guys spent the whole weekend referring to it as a ‘jet’.
Was that the weekend I was clouted by an errant B25 prop?
I find it ridiculous that in some states they’re illegal, they make such wonderful pets!
As for selling them, here in the UK they’ll only be going for £10 each .
£2 each when I lived in the UK. Had one in Cambridge that escaped one night & was never seen again. Over the next six weeks there were EIGHT different missing cat notices appear in our street…
Ye Gods and I thought the BBC were bad at misidentifying aircraft
Not to mention pronouncing Ione (*I own*) as * Loan*
They’re illegal to own in California…. but are the 3rd most popular pet after dogs & cats. They also sell for STUPID money, $200 isn’t rare.
Interesting to note the oil leak over the drop tank already…
It’s coming from an exhaust stack.
*perfectly preserved*??
Good frigging grief, what a sorry bunch of miserable ******s you lot are.