Four days were spent staring at the weather channel, wondering whether the line of thunderstorms passing from the Gulf up through the Southeast would ever end. Still, the motel room was warm and dry, the truckstop next door served food which, although it could be called greasy was certainly overcooked and tasteless, too. He's resting, waiting for his next flight. We'll toss in a couple more aircraft pix from Alabama, too. Flying is the second greatest thrill known to Man.
Landing is the first.
Dating back to the 1940's, the US military has stored aircraft in huge desert parking lots, ostensibly awaiting some future use. For the most part, these relics have collected dust until finally they're trundled to a nearby scrapyard where eventually they are recycled into aluminum, steel and copper ingots. Click on the C-46 icon to the right for photos of some of the planes currently awaiting the melting pot.