58Skylane wrote:Some great "Ramp Mummies" pictures here: http://www.flickriver.com/groups/junkairplanes/pool/interesting/

There are 1077 of those photos! I got to 87 and ran out of hope. The Navions in the bushes are sad.....just no reason for it. I stopped by W52 yesterday and saw a Bonanza sitting there like that. I may drive back out there with a camera today and post it. For shame.

EB

My airstrip is beside a busy highway. I am just starting my search for a plane to put up on a pole and use as a wind direction indicator. In 18 months I will take ownership of the pole. Now it has 4 billboards on it. The steel pole is about 35 feet tall and maybe 3 feet diameter. The base it is bolted to is 8ft W x 16ft L x 8ft deep, all solid concrete. I think it should hold and spin just about anything.

Of course I am a cheap SOB, and it needs to be metal, and still look cool. How about some ideas??

They don't always stay mummies. This beech 18 sat at the end of steward field for a long time (12 years), and it eventually ended up a show piece:

http://www.airventure.org/news/2009/090219_grimes.html

I used to walk down and look it over when it was sitting in the weeds. I'm really glad, and pretty surprised that it made it back to airworthy. Last time I saw it, one wingtip was damaged and it was missing engines and half of the control surfaces...

My current plane was a ramp mummy at Kamiah for 13 years, it isn't a showplane, but it's a lot of fun to fly.

Retired 747-100 at KMEB

This is a very tired 1970 747-100 sitting at the Laurinburg-Maxton, NC airport.

Link I found this at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolinadoug/4508679513/

And a lot more really nice HDR pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolinadoug/page26/

Idea
I've seen the 747 Wing house. How about old wing for carports??

More pics: http://phreakmonkey.com/aviation/2004.09.19/index.html


Interesting!
Walter Soplata
http://www.eaa.org/news/2010/2010-12-09_soplata.asp
Many pictures here: http://pacaeropress.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3243121

Went up to NW Propeller at Puyallup to pick up a prop box. These two twins were rotting on the ramp. Both have been cannibalized to a certain degree. Beyond saving. Sad.

This lil guy was in Kent, WA a few years back.

Poor little fella!

Navion left to return to nature at ONZ (Someone was in the cockpit doing something a couple summers ago, but the "boot" is still on the nosewheel)



The snow pile lower center is what I shoveled out of the way to get my car unstuck from the snow drift that I didn't notice because I was looking at the Navion.

On the other hand, this Colonial Skimmer hadn't flown since some time in the 1980's. Then the owners nephew decided to resurrect it:

Maybe sometime I'll remember to get a photo, but I wanted to share one of the benefits of a ramp mummy. At my old airport there is a piper (I think an Arrow II) that's been abandoned for at least six year. That's when I started my training and it already had flat tires by then. Someone appears to be paying the tie-down charge though, as the airport authority hasn't hesitated in the past to cable-tie aircraft to the ramp for non-payment.

Anyway, we use it as a demonstration of why one looks into the cowl and does a careful inspection for FOD. During the summer months walking up to the ramp mummy and knocking on the cowl will nearly always result in the panicked escape of 2-5 birds!

Near Dayton, WA.

I did call the owner to see if he was interested in selling - thought it might make a nice restoration after I finish my Bearhawk. No interest in selling. Guess a little bit of air in the tire and she is good to go.

n144sh wrote:I did call the owner to see if he was interested in selling - thought it might make a nice restoration after I finish my Bearhawk. No interest in selling. Guess a little bit of air in the tire and she is good to go.

Any indication why? I've always wondered about those situations.

rw2 wrote:

n144sh wrote:I did call the owner to see if he was interested in selling - thought it might make a nice restoration after I finish my Bearhawk. No interest in selling. Guess a little bit of air in the tire and she is good to go.

Any indication why? I've always wondered about those situations.

I wondered the same thing. Very nice lady called me back (I had left a voicemail). Just said she had no interest - we never even had a discussion at all about price so that isn't the issue. Only guess I have is an emotional attachment.

Sad - it would be really cool to see some of these old neglected birds restored to flying condition.

I want to say it has sat in the same spot at the Ag Field out of Dayton for some 15+ years. Cant say for certain. Long time though. I would love to know the story behind some of these.

If we can get the FAA or Congress or whomever to pass the Third Class Medical exemption, I bet a bunch of 'em would be in the air.

wtxdragger wrote:If we can get the FAA or Congress or whomever to pass the Third Class Medical exemption, I bet a bunch of 'em would be in the air.

Fabulous. A bunch of diabetic geriatrics will be firing up hulks that haven't flown in ten years. That's definitely not going to be an issue.

rw2 wrote:

wtxdragger wrote:If we can get the FAA or Congress or whomever to pass the Third Class Medical exemption, I bet a bunch of 'em would be in the air.

Fabulous. A bunch of diabetic geriatrics will be firing up hulks that haven't flown in ten years. That's definitely not going to be an issue.

I think you would argue if some one said the Sun was Yellow!!??

M6RV6 wrote:I think you would argue if some one said the Sun was Yellow!!??

It only appears to be yellow because the blue is scattered by water vapor in the atmosphere.

rw2 wrote:

wtxdragger wrote:If we can get the FAA or Congress or whomever to pass the Third Class Medical exemption, I bet a bunch of 'em would be in the air.

Fabulous. A bunch of diabetic geriatrics will be firing up hulks that haven't flown in ten years. That's definitely not going to be an issue.

Still wouldn't be anywhere near what's on our nations highways and roads!

I hope your comment was sarcasm.