I understand aviation quite well. I did not say removing the wings was an option. And I didn’t say they were toys or were to be treated as such.
Towing military planes on roads is not unheard of, we used to tow them on highways to AIMD facilities some distance away. You aren’t towing them like a pop-up camper, and that wasn’t what I was implying.
And I certainly understand about aircraft not being able to just “fly a short hop”. I know all these were hard down aircraft.
What I readily admit I don’t understand are Florida highway traffic patterns, bridge structures and the like, especially in the path of a Hurricane. I know what weight limits are for the Interstate Highway System, but don’t know the situation on roads in and out of Tyndall. I agree that organizing, loading, and having a caravan of flatbeds on those two lane northbound roads is unrealistic.
But I do know I am damned mad about having an Air Force base like that on the Gulf Coast in the Florida panhandle. With inflight refueling so readily available and the super cruise capability of those planes, what possible advantage is there to having those planes in that location? That it irritatingly stupid.
Highway transit would be tough to depend on, especially if you throw in late evacuations and so on. Rail, however, should be a possibility. I suspect that Tyndall has its jet fuel delivered by rail spur - I know the old L&N (now CSX) tracks run through the Florida panhandle just north of Panama City. Even if all they did was roll the hangar queens down to the Gulfport, Mississippi freight yard, that would be far enough to avoid a direct hit.