- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Motorbooks (Nov 17 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0760308209
- ISBN-13: 978-0760308202
- Product Dimensions: 27.3 x 21.1 x 0.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 572 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,773,219 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book examines the fate of obsolete military aircraft. In addition to photos of the aircraft, this book explains how the Air Force prepares the aircraft for storage, restores them for service, sells them whole and for parts, and, when need arises, destroys them.
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Mention the name Kingman to anyone even casually versed in aviation lore and the image of thousands of aluminum veterans lined up in neat rows awaiting the scrapper's blade comes to mind. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Mention the name Kingman to anyone even casually versed in aviation lore and the image of thousands of aluminum veterans lined up in neat rows awaiting the scrapper's blade comes to mind. Read the first page
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Very good overview of post-war aircraft 'dumps', Nov 10 2008
By Jersey Kid - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Military Aircraft Boneyards (Paperback)
This book provides an overview of how the USAAF reduced its warplane inventory after the end of the Second World War. As an overview, there is less detail than most historians - professional and amateur - but when compared with other books addressing this subject, this one is the definitve version.Coverage includes the big yards - such as Chino/Ontario, Kingman, Altus, Davis-Monthan and Litchfield Park - as well as individual aircraft. A job really well done.
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Military Aircraft Boneyards - A Big Boy's Playground, April 8 2011
By Mark P - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Military Aircraft Boneyards (Paperback)
As usual Nick Veronico's love for his subject has shown itself in his book Military Aircraft Boneyards. Mr.Veronico has written about military aircraft boneyards in such detail it is hard to walk away from the book, especially given the outstanding photos that range all the way from right after WWI all the way through the present. While most aviation enthusiasts will fixate on the fantastic photos of piles of vintage aircraft stacked up like cord-wood or will cry over photos of now-extinct aircraft types being chopped into pieces Mr.Veronico also delivers a detailed history on the development of aircraft salvage and reclamation as it pertains to today's military and commercial operations. This is a fun book to pick up, it certainly stimulates the imagination, the little-boy in every man will come out as he dreams of jumping in the cockpit of his favorite aircraft and soaring off into the vast blue sky saving one more plane from becoming his next six pack of beer.
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Fascinating, Jan 31 2009
By A. Kelly - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Military Aircraft Boneyards (Paperback)
This is my second purchase of "Boneyards" and it took me a while to find. The story of how and why this victorious country amassed and destroyed tens of thousands of WW2 aircraft after the war has always fascinated this reader. Narrative is very well written, but pictures of the storage fields are amazing. If you're interested in the War, aviation, a necessary process of destruction involving an enormous inventory of aircraft, not all of it worn out, this is a keeper!
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