From: "Robert Comer" 

> Not exactly a lot of "moving parts" on the outside of an airplane that
> those
> modern technological marvels called "plastic" and "duct
tape" can't
> protect.

Did you see any plastic or duct tape when they dug that plane up, I didn't.
I agree you can easily seal something against sand, but it wasn't sealed...

> Its worthwhile to note that the USA stores its surplus aircraft in the
> open
> at a desert airbase (Davis-Monthan) subject to all sorts of wind blown
> sand
> and such.

Yep, but those are used for parts or left to rot, and if they really want
to recommission one, that have to basically rebuild it.

> So you agree the press has essentially been sequestering certain news
> items
> that might be of interest to the public.

I never said the press didn't do that, but since there are different
leaning press publications, the story does usually get out.

- Bob Comer


"Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in message
news:42dc7bfc$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:42dc45c4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > Assumption more than logic I suspect.
>>
>> Nope, I know what sand does to moving parts.
>
> Not exactly a lot of "moving parts" on the outside of an airplane that
> those
> modern technological marvels called "plastic" and "duct
tape" can't
> protect.
> Its worthwhile to note that the USA stores its surplus aircraft in the
> open
> at a desert airbase (Davis-Monthan) subject to all sorts of wind blown
> sand
> and such.
>
>>
>> >There have been many hundreds of DOD press
>> > releases regarding Iraq and Afganistan that go completely unreported in
>> > the
>> > media.
>>
>> I'm not surprised, it takes a major figure to get the message out.
>
> So you agree the press has essentially been sequestering certain news
> items
> that might be of interest to the public.
>

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