Animal cruelty at its worst...don't look if you are squeamish

[Gixergs]

Horrid end,I remember as a younger man hanging out of a speeding Sherpa van on the way to Manchester in order to watch an A10 that was flying next to us,amazing sight.
As for nightmare scenes this one really gets me

[Hudsonduster]

Awwwww Yah.

But it's "Welcome To The Food Chain," like it is for everything including us (we just conveniently sidestep that little detail in our musings). We don't mourn the odd & frequent Peterbilt taken out of service, but then for most of us that's just an obstacle on our commute! This is different...

No, it's not. As a longtime researcher into 19th-cent.commercial sail (the Peterbilts of their time), I mourn the loss as well. At least, here we have a whole wealth of photo and other data we can model from.

The armored tub is what makes me want to stand up and wave the flag! We build airplanes to protect our boys--but ground-attack craft have typically been armored like that. There's a story of a Sturmovik they set out at Aberdeen as a target, and after several days of pounding, the tub was all that was left--and it was intact.

The other thing to celebrate here is the Warthog's wonderful Gatling gun. An early demo of the weapon had 'em setting a Lincoln Mk IV out on the firing line, and sawing through it in twenty seconds flat. Just the kind of thing that makes it really hard for me to stay a decent left-wing pacifist, but there it is.

Hail True and Faithful Warrior, and Godspeed.

'Duster

[peter taft]

Originally Posted by Gixergs

Horrid end,I remember as a younger man hanging out of a speeding Sherpa van on the way to Manchester in order to watch an A10 that was flying next to us,amazing sight.
As for nightmare scenes this one really gets me

And what a waste - Your baby had all things going for her, shame the Government didn't see it that way. Diabolical waste of designers / builders / testers time, and tax payers money. Well, that's Gov Business for you, here anyways

[Blue Angel]

R.I.P. Requiem in pacem... Rest in Peace.
Nothing in our life is for ever.
I remember the demolish of the last KLM Constelations on Schiphol airport.
I was a little boy in that time and i also has waterlanders in my eyes.
To see this video (Airdave)... This hero of the sky deserve a better end than this and i hope that they keep enough of this planes for to show in the museum every where in the world.
So please USA don't destroy your history in this way.

[peter taft]

The sadness never ceases !

[avro202]

Change TSR2 to Arrow, and they could be talking, almost word for word, about the Canadian Avro Arrow.

Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Concevied in the 50's to be a state-of-the art aircraft, it fell afoul of short sited penny-pinching politicians who had no real understanding of what the potential threats were and how to counter them. And the end was exactly the same- the project abruptly terminated, all prototypes, jigs and drawings destroyed by the government, and a collapse of the company.

[mbauer]

Can't watch it!

Too bad they can't let the US tax payers get more money for them than scrap.

Battle damage, this bird is a hero! Evidently got someone home, before the scrap pile!

Sure would make a nice crop duster! Forest Fire Fighter too!
Mike

[Loui]

crop duster!? .... A silent dusterrr. if you hear it coming!, its too late.

[Retired_for_now]

So, eventually all the aircraft you flew either end up on a stick at the front gate or get a second life as beer cans ... not such a bad way to go.
Yogi (still a few old friends logging flying hours)

[Texman]

An ABDR airframe was an airframe who's service life had been reached, or
had some catastrophic incident that rendered it unfeasable to repair. It was
then turned into a repair training asset to teach the mechanic how to do battle
damage repair and get the aircraft flying again, in the wartime scenario.