AA2MM From United States of America, joined Aug 2001, 108 posts, RR: 0 Posted (10 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 926 times:
Went to the Mojave desert this past weekend . Awesome
sight , to see so many planes parked there : I am quoting
from memory OK :
3 KLM 743s
1 Mandarin MD11
4 Virgin 742s
5 FedEx A310s
2 Continental 742s
2 British 742s
2 British 757s
8 xAA xHawaiian DC10-10s
And rows and rows of US Air 733s and 732s in both
mainliner and Metrojet liveries.
And tons of other planes that I can't even remember...
One interesting thing I'd to share with you folks who can
make it up there in person : try to go there during the
weekend : if there is no activity there , the guard will give
you a tour for $5US a head : minimum $10 .
He did drive us out there , to the field and drove through
2 rows of US Air jets , parked on both side of a dirt drive
way.
He was mentioning the day before , they had 30 height
challenged people ( OK...30 midgets ) pulling on a jumbo
for some show...
The guard is in the main bldg right below the tower , go
inside and it's the first door to the right.
It's really worth a drive out there from LA.
AA2MM From United States of America, joined Aug 2001, 108 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (10 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 916 times:
PS : The guard was telling that that by monday , they were
expecting the 100 F100s from AA to come in for moth ball
CactusA319 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 2918 posts, RR: 28 Reply 2, posted (10 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 907 times:
United_Fan From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 7176 posts, RR: 8 Reply 3, posted (10 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 844 times:
Considering they only operated 75 total.....and 2 were written off,not sure where he came up with 100 ??
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456 From Netherlands, joined Feb 2001, 262 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (10 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 821 times:
What are those planes doing exactly over there? I mean, are all those airliners hoping to sell them to another airliner?
Is it just one big supermarket?
MD11 would be a good market though i think, for a cargo airliner.
Another thing, how is the state inside? The outside is packed in some sort of aluminium foly, but is it as well for the inside? The cockpit eg.?
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29367 posts, RR: 61 Reply 5, posted (10 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 806 times:
Who is getting that $5 bucks....The guard???
Is he on the up and up?
OBAMA-WORST PRESIDENT EVER....Even SKOORB would be better.
AA2MM From United States of America, joined Aug 2001, 108 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (10 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 780 times:
The guard is not doing any thing illegal : his boss was there when we got back and the man asked if we enjoyed the ride out in the field.
The planes are all sealed up with foils , even the landing gears : I would guess
that the insides are kept as is , from the last day of operation and all control
systems still in place.
To think back : I was out there about 2 years ago : there used to be tons of
x PSA and x Air Cal BAE146s and tons of BA L1011s...wonder where they are
now , did not see even 1 of them ? And not too many UA planes out there this
time either.
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29367 posts, RR: 61 Reply 8, posted (10 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 777 times:
I was just wondering if it was a real program or if the guard was pocketing your $5 bucks.
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