Military Aircraft Boneyards [Paperback]

Nicholas A. Veronico (Author)

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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Haynes Manuals Inc; illustrated edition edition (26 Sep 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0760308209
ISBN-13: 978-0760308202
Product Dimensions: 27.3 x 21.1 x 0.9 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,772,459 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Mention the name Kingman to anyone even casually versed in aviation lore and the image of thousands of aluminum veterans lined up in neat rows awaiting the scrapper's blade comes to mind. Read the first page

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Very good overview of post-war aircraft 'dumps' 11 Nov 2008

By Jersey Kid - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback

This book provides an overview of how the USAAF reduced its warplane inventory after the end of the Second World War. As an overview, there is less detail than most historians - professional and amateur - but when compared with other books addressing this subject, this one is the definitve version.

Coverage includes the big yards - such as Chino/Ontario, Kingman, Altus, Davis-Monthan and Litchfield Park - as well as individual aircraft. A job really well done.

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Military Aircraft Boneyards - A Big Boy's Playground 8 April 2011

By Mark P - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

As usual Nick Veronico's love for his subject has shown itself in his book Military Aircraft Boneyards. Mr.Veronico has written about military aircraft boneyards in such detail it is hard to walk away from the book, especially given the outstanding photos that range all the way from right after WWI all the way through the present. While most aviation enthusiasts will fixate on the fantastic photos of piles of vintage aircraft stacked up like cord-wood or will cry over photos of now-extinct aircraft types being chopped into pieces Mr.Veronico also delivers a detailed history on the development of aircraft salvage and reclamation as it pertains to today's military and commercial operations. This is a fun book to pick up, it certainly stimulates the imagination, the little-boy in every man will come out as he dreams of jumping in the cockpit of his favorite aircraft and soaring off into the vast blue sky saving one more plane from becoming his next six pack of beer.

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Fascinating 31 Jan 2009

By A. Kelly - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback

This is my second purchase of "Boneyards" and it took me a while to find. The story of how and why this victorious country amassed and destroyed tens of thousands of WW2 aircraft after the war has always fascinated this reader. Narrative is very well written, but pictures of the storage fields are amazing. If you're interested in the War, aviation, a necessary process of destruction involving an enormous inventory of aircraft, not all of it worn out, this is a keeper!

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