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U.S. B-24 bombers attack German oil facilities at Ploești. Of the 16 cameramen accompanying this mission, the one who took this photo was the only one to survive - May 1944
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Air France A380 next to a British Airways 747
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B-52s are aluminum so it is definitely not rust. The location is an air force base in the desert near Tuscon, Arizona so the brown is probably sand. The dark grey color is paint so maybe the lighter ones are de-painted or un-painter aluminum? They are stored there in the desert just to prevent rust of the non-aluminum components. Bus tours of the site are available (maybe not now with Covid).
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Aluminum does not rust, but it corrodes. A piece of corroded aluminum:cambo swa wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:51 pmB-52s are aluminum so it is definitely not rust. The location is an air force base in the desert near Tuscon, Arizona so the brown is probably sand. The dark grey color is paint so maybe the lighter ones are de-painted or un-painter aluminum? They are stored there in the desert just to prevent rust of the non-aluminum components. Bus tours of the site are available (maybe not now with Covid).
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cambo swa wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:51 pmDoc67 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 25, 2021 3:42 pmWonder how many of those in the photos above flew over Cambodia dropping bombs...Brody wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 1:10 am B-52 Boneyard
B-52s are aluminum so it is definitely not rust. The location is an air force base in the desert near Tuscon, Arizona so the brown is probably sand. The dark grey color is paint so maybe the lighter ones are de-painted or un-painter aluminum? They are stored there in the desert just to prevent rust of the non-aluminum components. Bus tours of the site are available (maybe not now with Covid).
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Have taken the tour. It was very interesting. All kinds of planes there, not just B52.
I recall back in the 80's there was a treaty with the USSR where we had to scrap some B52's I remember seeing some video where they had a GIANT Guillotine that chopped the wings off the B52. Wonder if that's what happened to some of these?
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Mr. Hanno, there are different grades of aluminum and the aluminum on B52s does not corrode ever. Maybe it does on German aircraft.hanno wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:44 amAluminum does not rust, but it corrodes. A piece of corroded aluminum:cambo swa wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:51 pmB-52s are aluminum so it is definitely not rust. The location is an air force base in the desert near Tuscon, Arizona so the brown is probably sand. The dark grey color is paint so maybe the lighter ones are de-painted or un-painter aluminum? They are stored there in the desert just to prevent rust of the non-aluminum components. Bus tours of the site are available (maybe not now with Covid).
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Apart from an uncalled for cheap shot, you are just plane wrong. Why would they build a corrosion control hangar:cambo swa wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:02 amMr. Hanno, there are different grades of aluminum and the aluminum on B52s does not corrode ever. Maybe it does on German aircraft.hanno wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:44 amAluminum does not rust, but it corrodes. A piece of corroded aluminum:cambo swa wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:51 pmB-52s are aluminum so it is definitely not rust. The location is an air force base in the desert near Tuscon, Arizona so the brown is probably sand. The dark grey color is paint so maybe the lighter ones are de-painted or un-painter aluminum? They are stored there in the desert just to prevent rust of the non-aluminum components. Bus tours of the site are available (maybe not now with Covid).
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Aluminum does corrode (even pure aluminum), and it corrodes very fast, so fast the thin layer of aluminum oxide will prevent the rest from corroding further.
Most planes have a layer of pure aluminum alloyed to the aluminum alloy below thus protecting it from corrosion. Pure aluminum is way too weak for airplane construction.
So B52's do corrode, and because of that the aluminum alloy used to build the plane can last decades
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hanno wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 7:06 amApart from an uncalled for cheap shot, you are just plane wrong. Why would they build a corrosion control hangar:cambo swa wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:02 amMr. Hanno, there are different grades of aluminum and the aluminum on B52s does not corrode ever. Maybe it does on German aircraft.hanno wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:44 amAluminum does not rust, but it corrodes. A piece of corroded aluminum:cambo swa wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:51 pmB-52s are aluminum so it is definitely not rust. The location is an air force base in the desert near Tuscon, Arizona so the brown is probably sand. The dark grey color is paint so maybe the lighter ones are de-painted or un-painter aluminum? They are stored there in the desert just to prevent rust of the non-aluminum components. Bus tours of the site are available (maybe not now with Covid).
Oh Mr Hanno, please tell me that was an intentional pun. If so, full marks!
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