The Scrapyards: Aircraft Salvage Around Davis-Monthan AFB - Volume 1 1980s

The Scrapyards: Aircraft Salvage Around Davis-Monthan AFB - Volume 1 1980s

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, is well known as the location of the US military¿s massive aircraft storage and disposal site. Lesser known, perhaps, are the numerous aircraft salvage companies that became established around the perimeter, whose businesses were founded on the acquisition and......
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Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, is well known as the location of the US military¿s massive aircraft storage and disposal site. Lesser known, perhaps, are the numerous aircraft salvage companies that became established around the perimeter, whose businesses were founded on the acquisition and disposal of airframes obtained from the military base.The locations in which these companies operated were, nominally, referred to as ¿the scrapyards¿, though in reality they were much more than that. The various companies specialised in repurposing hundreds of former military aircraft, be that restoration back to airworthiness, salvaging for useful spare parts to support similar types still in commercial operation, or smelting the airframe carcasses back into aluminium ingots.In The Scrapyards: Aircraft Salvage Around Davis-Monthan AFB ¿ Volume 1 1980s, author Graham Robson offers a fascinating insight into this lost world of aviation wrecks and relics, illustrat
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Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, is well known as the location of the US military’s massive aircraft storage and disposal site. Lesser known, perhaps, are the numerous aircraft salvage companies that became established around the perimeter, whose businesses were founded on the acquisition and disposal of airframes obtained from the military base.The locations in which these companies operated were, nominally, referred to as ‘the scrapyards’, though in reality they were much more than that. The various companies specialised in repurposing hundreds of former military aircraft, be that restoration back to airworthiness, salvaging for useful spare parts to support similar types still in commercial operation, or smelting the airframe carcasses back into aluminium ingots.In The Scrapyards: Aircraft Salvage Around Davis-Monthan AFB – Volume 1 1980s, author Graham Robson offers a fascinating insight into this lost world of aviation wrecks and relics, illustrated throughout with his own full colour period photographs.

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I hjertet av Tucson, Arizona, ligger Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, en legendarisk hub for militærflyoppbevaring og avhending. Men har du noen gang tenkt på hva som skjer med flyene når de treffer bakken? Det er her The Scrapyards kommer inn! Denne fascinerende boken av Graham Robson tar deg med på en reise inn i en verden hvor nedlagte fly blir til verdifulle ressurser og minner.

En dypdykk i visuelle skatter

Med fullfargefotografier fra 1980-tallet, gir denne boken et grunt innblikk i de mange skrothandlerne som har blomstrer rundt Davis-Monthan. De spesialiserte seg i hele spekteret fra restaurering av fly til avhending av deler, så vel som omforming av skrotten til råmaterialer. Her er noen av de mest imponerende egenskapene:

  • Historisk verdi: Boken er et viktig dokument for flyinteresserte og samfunnshistorikere.
  • Visuelle detaljer: Over 100 fargerike bilder av slitne fly, skrotgårder og avfallshåndtering.
  • Innsikt i skrothandel: En grundig gjennomgang av hvordan disse spesialister arbeider.
  • Minneverdige historier: Fascinerende fortellinger bak hvert fly, som vever sammen historien om det amerikanske luftforsvaret.

Hvorfor velge The Scrapyards?

Enten du er en flyentusiast, en samler av forsvarsrelaterte bøker eller bare nysgjerrig på emnet, vil dette verket tilby noe unikt. Det gir både informativt innhold og en nostalgisk reise tilbake til en tid hvor flyene hadde sjel – og hvor de ble savnet, men aldri glemt.

Invester i The Scrapyards: Aircraft Salvage Around Davis-Monthan AFB - Volume 1 1980s i dag! La deg fascinere av hvordan avfall blir til verdifulle skatter i skrothandlerens verden.

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