For transport ability? We have a lot of planes sitting there in that big “airplane” parking lot out in the desert west. Why do you suppose they were never scrapped? A lot of them are fixable!
True to the point that it would take some months to get things going when things are needed...last week! LOL!
Why do you suppose they were never scrapped? A lot of them are fixable!
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Been there, long term storage, both military and commercial. Do you have any idea how long and the expense it would take? I do- we ( DOS Airwing) pulled a dozen OV10’s out- for our Plan Colombia operations a few years back…..it took two years to finally get them certified airworthy and into theatre….guess what? That was not the problem- getting aircrews, pilots….
Onto the commercial aircraft….same same, only worse. Airlines have no money or talent to get thrm airworthy on any large scale.
For a time I was involved in the Civilian Airlift Program…shuttle troops and equipment to Iraq and Afghanistan with US airlines…..we were overwhelmed, and with our C-17’s getting laid down prematurely for wing cracks, over extended maintenance checks, normal phased maintenance they could not handle the load….airframe hours piled up requiring 6-8 month special checks, …troops then went mostly by Airlines, heavy equipment and supplies went by SHIP due to the few “ transport crisis’s “ that inevitably occurred….
Fact is our military no longer has the capability or capacity to get what is needed 6,000 miles for a war with Russia….our our Twinkle Toes Pentagon knows this, and more importantly Vlad knows this….his 600 km supply train ( by trains- hundreds of tons each day) trumps the US’s 6,000 mile supply train.