All of this old stuff ends up as freighters, not passenger-carrying aircraft, at least a lot of what I saw was. In fact, you would see a lot of them on the tarmac in Miami, coming and going.
-D > On Jul 4, 2024, at 7:15 PM, Clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Not so sure that airframe or any of that vintage fly south of the border > anymore. Fifty years ago, while residing in Ibero America there were a few > too many time/cycle excess examples that experienced metal fatigue and had > unscheduled ground encounters with mass passenger terminations such that > north of border users went home in metal cases. Pressure was exerted upon > those national air carriers to “retire” and not acquire end of life product > unless used for military or cargo flights. > > At least that was policy for thirty years since 1976, as too many congress > critters got severely reamed over citizens meeting grizzly ends (mostly > Hebraic who could not be interred in time). Having Bubbi rotting in a jungle > for a week until the consular officers could machete their way to the impact > site tended to inflame sentiments and reduce re-election funding. > > Clay > > > inter urinas et faeces nascimur > >> On Jul 4, 2024, at 9:49 AM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> I’ll bet there are still a bunch in South and Central America? That seems to >> be where all of the spent airframes go when they’re taken out of commercial >> service. I can recall seeing DC-3s when I worked in that part of the world, >> but i never got to fly on one, darn it! >> >> -D > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
