not-bono-ever
meh
yes. An abandoned plane pics thread . There is noting like seeing abandoned plane to raise the hackles of excitement.
A starter - Tu 144 in Kazan
A starter - Tu 144 in Kazan
Abandoned & unwanted plane pics
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sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Oooh, I've got a few to add...... the airstrip was originally abandoned, and its been turned into a tourist spot, but barely anyone goes it seems.
All at Khe San
Khe Sanh Combat Base - Wikipedia
All at Khe San
Khe Sanh Combat Base - Wikipedia
not-bono-ever
meh
its a bit of a trek innit and not a massive amount to see these days really....
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
There used to be quite a few around the NE of Scotland but in recent years, many have been cleaned-up/removed for scrap with a few rarer machines removed to museums/restoration and the RAF cleared-up their various dumps in and around Lossiemouth/Kinloss that once held many interesting planes.
This is near me - its not abandoned/unwanted though - in fact it is well looked after and makes for one of the coolest outside smoking areas I've so far seen.
The firm's back yard can often be interesting - they are a firm that buy-up old jet engines, sometimes still in the pods/planes and repurpose them for oil industry use. This plane is a survivor of a job-lot of several Hunters they once bought for reworking.
This is near me - its not abandoned/unwanted though - in fact it is well looked after and makes for one of the coolest outside smoking areas I've so far seen.
The firm's back yard can often be interesting - they are a firm that buy-up old jet engines, sometimes still in the pods/planes and repurpose them for oil industry use. This plane is a survivor of a job-lot of several Hunters they once bought for reworking.
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sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Yeah a bit...... we did a private car day tour though. It was an area I felt important to see, and we'd been dicking about trying to find a coach tour, and they all looked shit, so I just doubled down, and actually, even though it was double the cost, the guide was amazing, and didn't follow the party line on stuff at all. Probably the most genuine humble guide we could have had. He'd been a young kid in the war, so could pass freely between the two sides, the company we'd used only used people who lived in the area at the time of the war.
Not a plane as such nor technically abandoned but... Ex RN Osprey chopper at Portland Marina earlier today (the boat visible just below the front rotor blade is mine 
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Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
not-bono-ever
meh
abandoned ex Yugo MIG at Zeljava complex in Bosnia
gosub
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spitfire
Walty McWaltface
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Meteor NF.11 or NF.12
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
I love this one. It reminds me of the time I spent making a quid or ten in the chaos of middle east aviation in the early noughties. The first time I chartered an Il-76 we did SHJ-KBL-DEL-DXB in it and had to solder the APU electrics back together after every landing.
catinthehat
Failed VK = Replicant
not-bono-ever
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Ergo Proxy
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Inevitable AMARG…
Though I did see part of a B2 airframe there over 10 years ago (might have been a test article, wasn’t permitted to photo it then, apparently was still there last year and someone sneaked a photo)...
Ultimate Stealth plane joke currently trending on Reddit
Know why now so
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Not a plane as such nor technically abandoned but... Ex RN Osprey chopper at Portland Marina earlier today (the boat visible just below the front rotor blade is mine
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That's a Lynx HAS.2 not an Osprey.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I bow to your superior knowledge. Better tell the management, they called the place "Osprey Quay" after the chopper
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
I bow to your superior knowledge. Better tell the management, they called the place "Osprey Quay" after the chopper
That's funny. This is an Osprey. The RN can't afford them.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
That's funny. This is an Osprey. The RN can't afford them.
Just to save any more confusion I have sourced this reliable and in no way misleading chart.
gosub
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That's funny. This is an Osprey. The RN can't afford them.
Why would they want them ? Lots of crashes and range when fully loaded ain't that great
