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Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Plan #59, Curtiss C-46 Commando by BillParker. Viewed 1611 times.
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| BillParker | 23-Aug-09 19:24 | | A little closer... |
| poppy | 24-Aug-09 07:21 | | Everytime I see a pic of these, it reminds me of the waste $'s from the government. If we had applied some of what these babies cost to healthcare, problem solved. |
| David Duckett | 24-Aug-09 08:37 | | You should see it from the ground! I'm going out there tomorrow to pick up some meds so I'll see if Picture Freddy can get a shot or two. I think this is an old image because most of the B-52s are gone now. |
| BillParker | 24-Aug-09 09:21 | | The B-1's surprised me. Apparently we traded them away in one of the SALT talks? |
| jgood | 24-Aug-09 09:59 | | Good point, Poppy. We all love aviation, obviously, but it's heart breaking to see all that money / effort (on that scale) in the bone yard. Makes me think that more of that money should have gone to more useful technological advancements for mankind, i.e. space exploration for getting us off this planet in case of large scale obliteration from asteroids or other natural phenomenon (or, I guess, natures self-limiting due to population expansion). |
| mleduc | 24-Aug-09 16:42 | | Yep, each of those B-1's cost 283 million bucks in 1998 dollars and they mothballed 33 of them. So that's basically $9.35 billion rusting away...I guess it's no TARP fund...but it is more than 3X the amount given out for Cash for Clunkers. :-) |
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