friggin RINO!!!WTH What’s behind the purpose of the act ? What is afraid of what ?
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friggin RINO!!!The "Bone Yard" Near Davis Monthan Air Force Base
Aircraft Purposefully Deployed as Artificial Reefs
No coastal states other than Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina are known to have intentionally pursued the use of aircraft as artificial reef material. Florida and North Carolina represent the two major states where surplus aircraft have been intentionally deployed as artificial reefs during the last 15 years. As of 2002, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s database on artificial reefs lists the following known occurrences of aircraft, purposefully placed for use as artificial reefs: one DC-4 off Broward County (1985, 71 foot depth), two Navy F-4 Phantom fuselages off Miami-Dade County (1988, 81 foot depth), three twin engine Martin 404 and one DC-3 fuselages off Collier County (1986-88, 28 foot depth), one DC-3 fuselage off Wakulla County(1988, 23 foot depth), one F-101, one F-102, one Sikorsky helicopter, and one T-33 trainer, all off Bay County (mid-late 1970s, early 1980s, 60 to 70 foot depth, (Danny Grizzard, personal communication), a Boeing 727 jet placed off Dade County (1993, 82 foot depth), placements of approximately 30 Navy A-6 Intruder aircraft fuselage sections in 100 feet of water off St. Johns County in northeast Florida (1995), three Air Force F-106 drone jets with wings still attached and nose cones removed placed off Bay County, northwest Florida (1995, 110 foot depth), 26 A-6 Intruder aircraft off Volusia County, northeast Florida (1996, 135 foot depth), eight A-7 Corsair jets and a T-2 trainer off Jacksonville, northeast Florida (1997, 70 foot depth), and a Lockheed Neptune P2V-3 bomber sunk off Pinellas County, central west coast Florida (2000, 43 foot depth). North Carolina has placed six aircraft for use as artificial reefs at two locations at depths ranging from 53 to 65 feet. These include two C-130 cargo fuselages, two intact F-4 Phantoms (minus the engines), and two A-4 fuselages (Steve Murphey, personal communication). Other aircraft placements include the 1992 placement of an aircraft tail assembly section in 90 feet of water at Alabama’s Morisette Reef (Walter Tatum, personal communication), and a South Carolina Deployment in 1995 of one A-7 fighter aircraft in 50 feet of water (Robert Martore, personal communication).
Pictures are lovely, scale models help a little, sitting behind the guns is a whole 'nother thing.
Static displays are just not the same, do not sound the same, and well, don't fly the same. I'm glad they cane here, 'cause most anywhere else is a long way from here.
There is just no way to fully comprehend the pucker factor for the Ball Turret Gunner without looking at that orb.
I guess I can claim that I flew a “warbird” when I was in the Arkansas Civil Air Patrol. A far cry from P-51s or B-25s, it was an Aeronca L-16, a former liaison puddlejumper. I never knew exactly how these little planes were “loaned” to the CAP by the USAF. The state CAP wing commander had a Stinson L-5, the local squadrons had either L-16s or Piper Super Cubs (don’t recall their military nomenclature). We mostly practiced search and rescue operations with the high school age CAP cadets. We paid for every gallon of avgas we consumed. Once a year we had a statewide search practice, put on by the USAF, and whenever an airplane, either civil or military, went missing, we would fly searches for real. The cadets got a little classroom work, intended to spur interest in USAF careers. One of mine retired a full colonel at the USAF academy, after getting a commission through ROTC.