Lost Airplane Graveyard (Ep. 1 Seg 2)

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We visit Walt Soplata's Lost Airplane Graveyard

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• lost
• airplane
• graveyard
• junkyard
• boneyard
• junk
• collection
• aircraft
• prototype
• warbirds

[jondatyoo2B]

For all you arrogant arm-chair quarterbacks, why didn't _you_ save these aircraft from the recyclers? You weren't born yet, you say?

Soplata at least had the vision to save what he could, and for a farmer without a rich sugar-daddy backer, I'd say he did pretty well. He's probably got the ONLY B36 in existence, IIRC. So, instead of bitching, how about helping one of the many Warbird restoration organizations already in-existence, and help restore some of these pieces of history???

[tradeaplanetv]

@jondatyoo2B There are actually 4 other B-36's still in existence. The YB-36 in the Soplata collection originally belonged to the Air Force Museum at Wright-Pat and was displayed in the 50's and 60's. When a new museum complex was built, it was determined that it would actually be cheaper to fly in another B-36 to the new facility than to transport the YB-36 from the old facility. The old YB-36 was cut into parts in 1972 and Mr. Soplata transported them to his farm by truck.

[jondatyoo2B]

@tradeaplanetv Thank-you for that update. Do you know where the other two are? Are they flyable? (my guess is "no", that would be pretty major overhead, and I like to think I'd have noticed an article if one was). Is the current Wright-Pat craft airworthy? Thanks again for your input.

[tradeaplanetv]

@jondatyoo2B 52-2827 is at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. It has been meticulously restored for static display but is not airworthy. 52-2217 is on display at the Strategic Air Command Museum in Ashland Nebraska. It is not airworthy, but is receiving an ongoing static restoration. 51-13730 is on display at the Castle Air Museum in Atwater, CA and is not airworthy.

[tradeaplanetv]

@jondatyoo2B The one at Wright-Pat is 52-2220 and was flown to the museum in April 1959. Although I would hesitate to call it completely airworthy, it is probably the closest to being ready to fly than all of the others.

[Tokatt]

whats the music please?

[tradeaplanetv]

@Tokatt It really doesn't have a name. You can find it on freesounds {dot} org. Search for 68155

[qdkproduction]

damn i want one

[MoreBankrBailoutsPLZ]

2:03 that Saber deserves to fly again,just to beautiful

[trancemuziek]

r they served on vietnam? most of them is vietnamwar era

[smokeyhunterparrot]

@Velotracer It's a b-25 Mitchell medium bomber, not a b-17.

[StreetRodDude]

Cool stuff



[GhostofCicero]

@Velotracer It's a B-25.

[Velotracer]

That looks like a B-17 at the 1 minute mark. And maybe an F-86 sabre cat at the 2 minute mark. Unfortunately, by the time he dies, there wont be anything left of these planes.

[TheBByamashiro]

i want so much to see a survive japan battleship:') but nooo you americans destroy everything....sounds pretty cool huh? thubs down from me

[jondatyoo2B]

@tradeaplanetv Thank-you again, I really appreciate you taking the time to provide this info. I was looking at some old pix of B-36s that had suffered damage (on the ground) during a tornado back in the 50s, and wondered what happened to the survivors.