A picture to make you cry

TLAM Strike · 01-31-11, 01:09 PM

Goodbye Nimrod...

UnderseaLcpl · 01-31-11, 04:04 PM

It took me a second to realize that this was a pic of a scrapped Nimrod and not an operational one.

bookworm_020 · 01-31-11, 04:20 PM

It's always sad to see well known and much loved aircraft been cut up. I saw footage of the F-111's here in Australia been cut up and it gave me the same feeling.

Sledgehammer427 · 01-31-11, 04:39 PM

when the US started getting rid of the surplus aircraft in the Air force after WWII, my ex girlfriends Uncle J.K. (J.K. Havener, if the name rings a bell) was sitting in a theater one afternoon after his tour, and they showed a Marauder getting blown up, of all the planes they had to blow up, it was his, they even zoomed in on the nose art.

He was dragged out of the theater screaming every profanity at the top of his lungs as loud as he could.

I look at pictures like these and I could only imagine his pain.

Jimbuna · 01-31-11, 04:48 PM

Was posted on a predomintally Brit forum two days ago and believe me the shock and awe/disdain was unprecidented.

AVGWarhawk · 01-31-11, 04:53 PM

Sorry to say they all eventually get put out to pasture and then dismantled. I see it as an end to an era.

01-31-11, 01:09 PM	#1
TLAM Strike Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Rochester, New York Posts: 8,633 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 6	A picture to make you cry Goodbye Nimrod... __________________

01-31-11, 04:04 PM	#2
UnderseaLcpl Silent Hunter Join Date: May 2008 Location: Storming the beaches! Posts: 4,254 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	It took me a second to realize that this was a pic of a scrapped Nimrod and not an operational one. __________________ I stole this sig from Task Force

01-31-11, 04:20 PM	#3
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	It's always sad to see well known and much loved aircraft been cut up. I saw footage of the F-111's here in Australia been cut up and it gave me the same feeling. __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

01-31-11, 04:39 PM	#4
Sledgehammer427 PacWagon Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Drinking coffee and staring at trees in Massachusetts Posts: 2,908 Downloads: 287 Uploads: 0	when the US started getting rid of the surplus aircraft in the Air force after WWII, my ex girlfriends Uncle J.K. (J.K. Havener, if the name rings a bell) was sitting in a theater one afternoon after his tour, and they showed a Marauder getting blown up, of all the planes they had to blow up, it was his, they even zoomed in on the nose art. He was dragged out of the theater screaming every profanity at the top of his lungs as loud as he could. I look at pictures like these and I could only imagine his pain. __________________ Cold Waters Voice Crew - Fire Control Officer Cmdr O. Myers - C/O USS Nautilus (SS-168) 114,000 tons sunk - 4 Spec Ops completed V-boat Nutcase - Need supplies? Japanese garrison on a small island in the way? Just give us a call! D4C!

01-31-11, 04:48 PM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Was posted on a predomintally Brit forum two days ago and believe me the shock and awe/disdain was unprecidented. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

01-31-11, 04:53 PM	#6
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Sorry to say they all eventually get put out to pasture and then dismantled. I see it as an end to an era. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road