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Its 2025, and i bet they regret this bc the kc10 is retired, and the Kc46 can't deliver.

where do see N304AA? That is one I ride with it last April 2002.. Sad to see that gone and always remember I ride with it :)

Wow

Imagine just seeing n334Aa Pull up

Just seeing this makes me wanna cry my dad has worked on this model as the captain

Noooooo

My family lived in Page, AZ in the first half of the 60's, during the construction of Glen Canyon Dam. As an airplane crazy kid I loved watching the Bonanza Airlines F-27s come through on their regular flights. I still remember the whistle the engines made, as you can hear on this video.

Whydo i demember something from jurrasic park 3?

looks like aircrafts are so lightweight and so flimsy, yet they carry millions of passengers and goods for decades. astonishing engineering.

6:31 that’s what used to be a massive plane

6:26 that’s what used to be a massive KC135

Very sad to see such a workhorse go to scrap. The KC-135 was a great airplane. They might've had to scrap some of them to create more space. There still are a few KC-135Rs still in use today. However, there's no telling as to how long these CFM-56 powered airplanes will last. Some of these airframes are well over 58 years old.

This should be considered a war crime. Absolutely despicable scrapping a B52

Such an insult to those who engineered and built these planes. Such a waste of resources to build, just for it to be destroyed.

Another stupid decision, you could have sold this aircraft to Israel, they would have paid good money and would have made it into a new aircraft. Stupid people.

0:21 It looks like plastic but in reality it's metal

I don’t remember the tails but I probably learned about 135 maintenance on this exact plane. Sat on the wing one day with the instructor at tech school laughing about Navy guys marching down the flight line. Memories…

That is some BULL SH----- right there. That is some utter BULL SH----

😣

Noooooo....😢😢😢

After flying the KC-135 for 29 years and 6500 hrs, this is just wrong............

Can you keep the cockpit

B52 “Spaceplane” being scrapped

Damn... what a tragedy. Even if it would never be airworthy again. A testament of the ends to which government will NOT go to make sensible decisions and very reminiscent of my time serving. 😢

Standard RyanAir landing tbh

They actually melt the material to make new airplanes

They’d have to strip the plane of all gauges and useable parts before scrapping?

Sad to see these videos normally. I hated flying in this particular 135-always seemed to have numerous problems. Still it would have been nice for a museum to take it or a static display somewhere. Retired boom operator.

Total waste of money. This is the heart of the Military/Industrial Complex. A self perpetual stream of equipment that will be designed, built, never or seldom used, then scrapped after 25-30 years.

Pourquoi dementele?? A cause d'achat nouvelles flottes?

TEAM AIRBUS#

So I guess there weren't any buyers for the flight instruments???

This is just pure evil. 😵

It’s amazing once they’re completely torn down it makes you realise they’re like 90% air, it’s hard to imagine this once big airplane is now a small pile of metal.

Cassé 135..

I had the opportunity to fly an A-37. I can't watch this.

There's something deeply personal watching this. Nobody would understand unless you crewed them and fixed them. smh.

Aaaaaaah!! NOOOOOoooooo...!

Looking over my logbook: I flew 2578 out of Blytheville AFB, Arkansas while it was assigned to the 97th Bombardment Wing (H), Strategic Air Command. Our crew flew this a/c on 08 Mar 1984 on the Wing's Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI) with our callsign "REAP 13". Even had a member of the IG team onboard riding the jump-seat, a Colonel Hamilton. A bad day for our Bomb Wing as we were rated "Marginal" due to our performance of getting bombs-on-target. If memory serves we flew 14 B-52G's on the low-level route. Our crew had to drop on the last bomb run utilizing time-and-distance on a 'no show' target at Havre, Montana. Contrary to what you see in the movies our Wing Commander wasn't fired. He retired as a 3-star General on April Fool's Day 1996. Would have paid cash money to pull something off the old bird before they scrapped it. I took note that 578 never got the mod for the ALCM and kept the tail gun installation.

Always sad to see these warbirds go. They performed their roles well during the Cold War and in Vietnam.

Those Scroggins boys dont fuck about do they? Blimey!

Nooo my kc

So sad to watch the destruction of the bombers I flew and stood alert with in the 70's to avoid all out nuclear war with the USSR. I just hope the day never comes when we look back and wish we had kept more of them around.

50 years flying it one day to say goodbye ( I was a gunner on the buff for 21 years),, checked my flight log book ,, had some flights on this one,,” thanks for the memories “

With 10000 hours in tin type. It IS A little sad to see such a good work horse being parted out. sol long old friend .

Thats infuriating. Such a 🗑waste

No!!! That's the wrong plane!!

5:34 Look at those beautiful instruments being destroyed.. the fact that the whole cockpit instrumentation was probably left in, made me cry. I´m a huge cockpit enthusiast and the fact that a neat cockpit is being ruined makes me cry. I´ve paid over 1000€ at my local airport for a 737 classic EFIS, which comforts me a bit.

Why not sell them? Seems cities would buy them to put them on display in parks and such.

Ok but why? Why not strip it for parts? Or sell it? Or storage it just on case? Or use it as a target drone? This is just idiotic.