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Frank van Hemert
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Post by Frank van Hemert »

sorry but 1986 saw only OH (from 3 different units) A-7D's at Sculthorpe. I have been myself that year to Sculthorpe. It can be that other A-7 units deployed later in the year to Europe.

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Post by AK01 »

My Novemeber 1989 visit.
<table><tr><td><a><img src="/http://lh3.ggpht.com/PieterBes01/SNdZoj ... tr><td>Van <a>AMARC 89</a></td></tr></table>
<table><tr><td><a><img src="/http://lh4.ggpht.com/PieterBes01/SNdZpD ... tr><td>Van <a>AMARC 89</a></td></tr></table>
<table><tr><td><a><img src="/http://lh4.ggpht.com/PieterBes01/SNdZqF ... tr><td>Van <a>AMARC 89</a></td></tr></table>
<table><tr><td><a><img src="/http://lh4.ggpht.com/PieterBes01/SNdZrE ... tr><td>Van <a>AMARC 89</a></td></tr></table>
<table><tr><td><a><img src="/http://lh4.ggpht.com/PieterBes01/SNdZry ... tr><td>Van <a>AMARC 89</a></td></tr></table>
<table><tr><td><a><img src="/http://lh4.ggpht.com/PieterBes01/SNdZsg ... tr><td>Van <a>AMARC 89</a></td></tr></table>
<table><tr><td><a><img src="/http://lh6.ggpht.com/PieterBes01/SNdZtM ... tr><td>Van <a>AMARC 89</a></td></tr></table>

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Post by dinovandoorn »

nice catch back in 89 !
No closed bus at that time i think...
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Post by Tomcat01 »

In the eighties you had the famous saturday tours, each month you had one from 9 -12 a.m. Starting of with a slow drive over the DM ramp before entering the AMARC area. You were allowed to go out of the bus at several spots for 15 minutes. They used the classic airforce busses so there was no problem photographing from the bus.
Yeah i sure remember those days, a lot of sweating and a lot of k64/25 slides. Wish i could have gone digital in those days.
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Post by AK01 »

Some more 89 shots, all scanned from slides.
And Dino, this was indeed one of those tours, i think it was the last year they organised it (not caused by me).
And to be honest, AMARC was at the end of a one month USA tour, it was bloody hot, and at that time i was glad the tour was over.
By now i have a different view on this day.
<table><tr><td><a><img src="/http://lh6.ggpht.com/PieterBes01/SNdZuM ... tr><td>Van <a>AMARC 89</a></td></tr></table>
<table><tr><td><a><img src="/http://lh6.ggpht.com/PieterBes01/SNdZu1 ... tr><td>Van <a>AMARC 89</a></td></tr></table>
<table><tr><td><a><img src="/http://lh5.ggpht.com/PieterBes01/SNdZvi ... tr><td>Van <a>AMARC 89</a></td></tr></table>
<table><tr><td><a><img src="/http://lh5.ggpht.com/PieterBes01/SNdZxF ... tr><td>Van <a>AMARC 89</a></td></tr></table>
<table><tr><td><a><img src="/http://lh5.ggpht.com/PieterBes01/SNdZya ... tr><td>Van <a>AMARC 89</a></td></tr></table>
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Post by Spacedust »

Some shots made October 2007:

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some bad conditions...

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Post by dinovandoorn »

Pima county museum.

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Post by Key »

Lots of hefty shots, guys. And an operational (looking) Whale! :)):

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Post by Tomcat01 »

Here are some from 2005 taken from the outside at Kolbroad,you need stairs to reach over the fence but it was worthwhile. Nowadays most of the f-4's and a-10's are gone so are all of the Tomcats!! What you have now are large numbers of c-130's.

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Post by mazzel »

Great topic! :)

These are from last february. Still loads of phantoms and a-10's about and quite some tomcats too.
All taken from outside the fence and from a cessna. We also took the last bustour on a friday but unfortunately it was one of the rare rainy days in Tucson. A pity if one sees the great pictures here that were taken from the closed bus...

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Post by Tomcat01 »

Jelmer,

You are completely right, there are still a lot of a10's , F-4's and f14's left at amarc but in 2005 a lot of them were close to the fence at Kolb. Last August most of them were gone (scrapped or moved elsewhere) and replaced in that area by c130's.
Here are some more.

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Post by dinovandoorn »

mazzel wrote:Great topic! :)


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Nice overview picture !!
All the C-5's and B-1's.... there is changed a lot since my last visit in 2000 !!
time for a re-visit :-)

anyone with some recent scrapyard shots ??

keep them coming !!

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Post by evhest »

Some more from eight years ago:
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Ready for conversion and be shot to pieces:
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Quite rare birds:
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Just a few of these at AMARC:
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Getting a refreshing rinse for whatever reason:
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Post by mazzel »

Tomcat01 wrote:Jelmer,

You are completely right, there are still a lot of a10's , F-4's and f14's left at amarc but in 2005 a lot of them were close to the fence at Kolb. Last August most of them were gone (scrapped or moved elsewhere) and replaced in that area by c130's.
ok, guess we were lucky to have seen some then. Apparantly they're afraid the Iranians will get hold of spare parts ;)

What really surprised me were the T-33's that were still there. What could be the reason for keeping those oldtimers around???
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