Abandoned Airplanes of the Far North

[farmersugarcane1]

the plane at 1:10 is a c47 dakota

[dixiewife47]

Whats the boycotting YT for ?

[grizzlyten]

@dixiewife47 Hi I sent you a PM with a video to explain.

[wreckdiver001]

Thanks much for info and I will check out the video. I have some good videos of warbirds on my channel you might like.

[wreckdiver001]

Good job on this video!

[grizzlyten]

@wreckdiver001 Thank so much! If you like these abandoned plane videos, there's a photographer on here named miragebym who has a video about the airplane graveyard in St. Augustine Florida. He won an award for one of the photos in it. His video is awesome!

[CULVER729]

WHEN I SAW THAT DOCUMENTARY ON PBS ABOUT THE KEEBIRD I DIDNT KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN  TO THE PLANE AT THE END.

THE FIRST TIME I SAW IT, I'M NOT AFRAID TO SAY I CRIED.

THAT FELLOW DARRYL GREENAMYER IS QUITE AN ACCOMPLISHED PILOT, BTW...

[joetubealong]

Man if ya had a big enough shopping cart you could make alot of money if you knew where all of those planes were!! Whats aluminum up to these days? =D

[CULVER729]

looks like kee bird b29 at the beginning.

sad story, ending

[joetubealong]

@CULVER729 wasnt expecting the ending to that Kee Bird like it did! =(

[speedmasteruk1]

its a shame what happened to that b52 .

[SuperOffgrid]

some of these planes seem to have been very well stripped.

[175yam1]

cool

[thekrunkymonkey1]

OH GOD! THE MUSIC! What genre would this fall into? Music to Shit By?

[kgs42]

Sad

[MrSupercar55]

Someone should recover the wreckage. All that aluminium from the crashed planes should fetch millions at the scrapyard.

[thekrunkymonkey1]

@MrSupercar55

Somebody has recovered it. Search for:

B-29 Frozen in Time Pt 1

Stupid youtube won't allow me to post links.

[dandantheminiman]

@thekrunkymonkey1

think you will find it wasn't recovered. i just watched all 6 parts. its worth watching but has a sad end to it

[SoyBoySigh]

Everybody's looking at all of this as though it's a waste of historical items, as though people actually GO to museums ... or as a waste of planes. To me, it's a symbol of all of the wasted energy spent on people being in such a rush to go places, and more specifically, the greatest waste of all time which was the cold war. Wasted lives, years, oil, technology, wasted chances. Also a reminder of what a dumping ground the north has been. Sad. Think of the oil a wrecked plane dumps into a lake.

[guardguy1950]

Lots of C46 Commando's! Great airplane!

[andyzzxxxxx]

in slovakia they will be all robbed by cigaans

[MFP1520]

great scrape metal

[humvee600]

the B29 (key bird) is long gone!

[Stubbee]

Any guy who forgets to shut down his APU prior to taxiing is a dumbass. And this is even more tragic because his mechanic died the previous summer.

[sjcottsi]

 There is a lot of repetition here. Photos of the same plane taken at different times of the year.

[grizzlyten]

@sjcottsi Yes, you're right. I'd collected a ton of photos and chose my favourites, not realizing until well after I'd uploaded it that some were of the same plane. Been meaning to redo the vid, but haven't gotten around to it.

Good eye, by the way.

[SittingMooseShaman]

@MrHeavygamer...the B52 had not been developed yet in WW2... first operational B 52 was in 1952...

[MrHeavygamer]

At least you know the planes in the snow will never rust and they will always be there

[MrHeavygamer]

@MrHeavygamer Or a B29

[Stubbee]

@MrHeavygamer

nice try but too late!!

[Stubbee]

@MrHeavygamer

the lack of education is astounding. B52 is an 8 jet engine bomber. That is a 4 radial engine B29 called the Kee Bird. It crash landed on Northern Greenland. some dumb-ass tried to recover it in 1995 but ended up destroying the thing through carelessness. He was taxiing with his APU still running. It spilled its gas and bye bye Kee Bird. You can watch the story on Youtube -> B-29 Frozen in Time.

[19thSFGA]

@Stubbee You sound really stupid insulting the guy who tried to fly her out look into him before you insult him both him and his mechanic gave everything to salvage the key bird.

[cactusbomb109]

I remember Hiking in the woods last year in top north of B.C. we found an old Douglas with military markings, everything was top shape on it, would of flown back to Quebec on it if I had Fuel lol

[guinness138]

Bloody shame about the Kee Bird. If she had made it home, that would have been such a great asset to the Warbird community.

[sakoshooter48]

@guinness138 That was one of the saddest things I think I have ever had to witness. To this dday I still feel terrible for all those involved in the endeavor!

[avgnman72]

God for some reason I love looken at planes and sunken boats

[grizzlyten]

@avgnman72 Yeah, me too. Also abandoned cars and trains. They're like magnets.

[avgnman72]

@grizzlyten I want to dig up Trenches in WW1 I want to scuba dive and see sunken boats. There is something so attractive about them

[splash602]

@grizzlyten same

[lonewulf44]

@grizzlyten  Yeah, same here. Something about the decay of time on elements. I'm the same way with urban stuff as well. There are various sites that are focused just on pictures of it. Sunken ships get me every time .. .

[grizzlyten]

@lonewulf44 Yes. I subscribe to a few sites that are dedicated to the exploration of abandoned buildings.

[speedmasteruk1]

@avgnman72 me too.

[PlainFizz]

What country was this in?

[grizzlyten]

@PlainFizz Hi There. These are in many places in the far north - Alaska, northern Canada, and Greenland. i can't recall if there were others.

[Vampyresama]

Hey, Grizzleyten!

This is really well put together! Did you take all these pfotos yourself? Do you have anymore to show. I'm into wreck chasing too, but don't have such interesting planes down this way!

Good Luck and Happy Hunting, Amigo!

[grizzlyten]

@Vampyresama Hi there Vampyresama. No, I didn't take these photos, I found them on the internet, and really liked them. And thank you so much for your kind words!

[blueeagle1978]

Thanks for the pictures. Is that first one a B-29? I saw the Kee Bird in your pictures but it was destroyed by an APU that broke loose. Always makes you wonder what happened when you see an old wrecked plane.

[grizzlyten]

@blueeagle1978 Yes, the first one is a B-29 - good eye! Certainly there are very interesting stories behind all of these planes. Thank you for watching!

[SXI1972]

@blueeagle1978 i think the first one in the video is actually the kee bird that they tried to rescue from the arctic

[uboot1967]

Very good job!!!!

[grizzlyten]

@uboot1967 Thank you so much!

[ArcticRalph]

Awesome video, thanks for sharing! :)

[grizzlyten]

@ArcticRalph Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and commenting.

[grizzlyten]

@GAREMPOTS I never knew about this either, til I found the websites. On some of them, they're trying to get people to help identify the airplanes.

Thanks for watching!

[kate4ever1]

wow. you ever looked on google earth at "the bone yard" (tucson arizona) miles and miles of old planes.

[grizzlyten]

@kate4ever1 I've been all over many of those sites, but somehow missed that one. Thanks for the tip (and thanks for watching, my friend).