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9 hours ago, VFR800 said:

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When she went into combat, they found out that all the signatures actually caused the plane to be slower than the other bare skin planes. But, she kept flying that way. 

 

5 Grand survived the war and made it back home. She was offered to the City of Seattle for a memorial, but the said no. 

 

She ended up being scrapped at Kingman Arizona 

 

Roger Freeman Collection FRE 3938 | American Air Museum in Britain

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On 8/23/2020 at 12:11 PM, Stinky said:

Ive read that planes were flown there, straight from the factory.

 

 

It is a sad truth that in government contracting it is cheaper when a contract is cancelled to take delivery and scrap than to pay termination costs.

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On 8/23/2020 at 12:11 PM, Stinky said:

Ive read that planes were flown there, straight from the factory.

 

Possibly is Stephen Ambrose's book on 

McGovern in WWII

 

I know a guy whose dad worked there.

 

As the war was ending, decisions where made on what planes would still be viable to keep after the war. Most where considered obsolete and thus disposed of rather quickly. Overseas aircraft where scrapped on site, unless deemed vital and then they where flown or shipped back home or to other sites. 

 

It was cheaper to scrap on site than to bring them home for scrapping. 

 

And yes, quite a few factory fresh planes where flown directly into "Storage" for disposal. Some where even flown to modification centers to be updated first and then straight to the fields. Zero service and straight to scrapping. 

 

P-38 Lightnings in the Philippines 

 

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End of an Air Force: Germany after World War II — General Aviation ...

 

Pacific Island of Biak

 

26 sad images of WWII Airplane graveyards & storage sites

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Great picture of "black-tail" number 4 in the last post!

Exhaust or paint? 

There's some internet documentation says it is not painted black... but it looks too perfect not to be paint. 

 

"A popular myth is, given the exhaust emissions of the F-4's engines, the vertical stabilizer of the No. 4 slot aircraft was painted flat black. However, this is false; the vertical stabilizer of the No. 4 slot aircraft was allowed to be blackened by jet exhaust starting in 1960. Phantoms were used from 1969 to 1973." 

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F-4-E-Phantom-II-Thunderbirds-circa-1972

 

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