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 Vanh
Location: Anchorage
Gender: Male
 |  |  | Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
< on 2/9/2011 3:58 AM >
|  | | | Was out mapping the back roads of Ft Richardson a few months back for Waze, when I stumbled on a gutted F-15 just chilling in a small clear cut area. I imagine it was put there for some sort of training exercise. I haven't been back recently as my Legacy doesn't do great in deep, unplowed snow. The location is on the military base so access is a little tricky for civilians. I've held off on telling anyone about it as there is enough left to take off of it, and I really hate scavengers. Anyway, here are some pics I took.
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CatalogOfCulture
   
Location: All over the northeast
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 1 on 2/9/2011 4:07 AM >
| | | | Way cool!
If it rusts I will find it |
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consecrated
   
Location: Connecticut
Gender: Male
Æthereal
| | | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 2 on 2/9/2011 11:59 AM >
| | | | Interesting! Definitely gutted!
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MonkeyPunchBaby
| | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 3 on 2/9/2011 1:08 PM >
| | | | You should go to King's Island. It looks amazing. I have a huge list of ghost towns in AK if you want the link.
[last edit 2/9/2011 1:11 PM by MonkeyPunchBaby - edited 1 times]
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AKphill
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Gender: Male
Exploring the 49th state.
| |  |  | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 4 on 2/9/2011 8:03 PM >
| | | | Nice to see another Alaska guy here on UER. I'm in Fairbanks for college, but am home in Anchorage during the summer.
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Vanh
Location: Anchorage
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 5 on 2/9/2011 9:58 PM >
| | | | Posted by MonkeyPunchBaby
You should go to King's Island. It looks amazing. I have a huge list of ghost towns in AK if you want the link.
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Awesome, I would love to see that!
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/-/ooligan
Location: Las Vegas area
Gender: Male
When in danger, when in doubt, RUN IN CIRCLES, SCREAM AND SHOUT!
| | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 6 on 2/10/2011 3:33 AM >
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(Duplicate post removed by author)
[last edit 2/10/2011 3:35 AM by /-/ooligan - edited 2 times]
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/-/ooligan
Location: Las Vegas area
Gender: Male
When in danger, when in doubt, RUN IN CIRCLES, SCREAM AND SHOUT!
| | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 7 on 2/10/2011 3:34 AM >
| | | | I looked up the tailcode, and it's last reported use was as an aircraft battle damage repair bird (used to train maintenance troops how to quickly repair damage & get the plane mission-ready again) there at Elmendorf AFB, which is adjacent to Ft Richardson.
/-/oolie
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people. |
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notwearingpants
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Gender: Male
| | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 8 on 4/26/2011 2:16 PM >
| | | | Also, this aircraft was manufactured in 1974.
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MonkeyPunchBaby
| | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 9 on 4/26/2011 2:20 PM >
| | | | Posted by Vanh
Awesome, I would love to see that!
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Here it is. This site hasnt been updated in a long while.
[last edit 4/26/2011 9:25 PM by MonkeyPunchBaby - edited 1 times]
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Therrin
 
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Location: North of Chicago, IL
Gender: Male
*Therrin puts on the penguin-suit
| | | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 10 on 4/26/2011 8:11 PM >
| | | | Posted by MonkeyPunchBaby
Here it is. This site hasnt been updated in a long while.
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Failure... (pardner!)
Whoa Pardner!
The file you are looking for cannot be found.
Give a person a match and they'll be warm for a minute, but light them on fire and they'll be warm for the rest of their life. =) |
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MonkeyPunchBaby
| | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 11 on 4/26/2011 9:26 PM >
| | | | Posted by Therrin
Failure... (pardner!)
Whoa Pardner!
The file you are looking for cannot be found.
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Fixed it. check the link again. I left the L off of html
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Chris-Kicker
Location: New York, NY
Gender: Male
no, I did not Kick Chris.
| | | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 12 on 4/26/2011 9:39 PM >
| | | | Posted by MonkeyPunchBaby
Fixed it. check the link again. I left the L off of html
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I was about to make a comment on how stupid that website is and how (atleast for here) has nothing but abandoned streets and/or totally not abandoned 'ghost towns'..
although according to the link Alaska is awesome..
edit 1:
nevermind...
Kennecott looks awesome though....
edit 2:
nevermind.. once more upon looking it up its a National Park.
stupid website.
Cool plane.
[last edit 4/26/2011 9:44 PM by Chris-Kicker - edited 2 times]
http://ChurchofAtom.com/
"Signatures are still stupid" |
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 13 on 4/27/2011 6:37 PM >
|  | | | Yeah, ghosttowns.com is crap. For Alaska, half the towns on the list either never existed or have been reduced to one or two foundations, and the other half are still inhabited tourist traps. They don't list any actual ghost towns with interesting stuff left, like Portage or Cleary.
I've said it before, but you can find more ghost towns just by looking over a USGS topo map for townsites and comparing to aerial photos for signs of activity/decay. I reccomend http://mapper.acme.com/ as a pretty good one. If anyone wants suggestions for ACTUAL Alaska ghost towns, I know of a few.
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
http://spamusement...hp/comics/view/137 |
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sandy frank
Location: Indiana-ish
Gender: Male
Why doesn't Johnny care...?
| | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 14 on 4/28/2011 2:33 AM >
| | | | Very sweet!
I don't have much of a developed eye for such things, but it looks as though these were taken with a pinhole camera?
I've no sense, I lick electric fence; I put barbed wire in my pants and do a Celtic dance.
- My Canon 300D is beat to hell, a bit finicky, and a 'lil loose, much like everything else I own...
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Juche
Location: Lincoln, NE
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 15 on 4/29/2011 7:54 PM >
| | | | This plane and related clearing look as if they were set up for an aerial attack target practice. Any comment on the evidence supporting or busting that hypothesis?
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ahhntzville
Location: Boston
| | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 16 on 5/2/2011 9:48 PM >
| | | | Posted by Chris-Kicker
edit 1:
nevermind...
Kennecott looks awesome though....
edit 2:
nevermind.. once more upon looking it up its a National Park.
stupid website.
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Kennecott is awesome, national park or no. Go on a crappy day and it'll likely be tourist-free. However, this is likely to change if the rumors are true that a proper bridge will be built to let vehicles cross into McCarthy and a tourist resort is built in town. The entire character of that area will change completely and irrevocably.
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theseeker
Location: Washington
Gender: Male
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
| | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 17 on 5/31/2011 6:44 AM >
| | | | This is awesome! You never see this stuff in my neck of the woods. It's a shame too, as the stuff around here can be boring.
They call me the seeker, and I've been searching low and high. - The Who |
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Coop711
Location: North Las Vegas, Nevada
Gender: Male
| | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 18 on 9/15/2011 9:01 AM >
| | | | Heyyy! It's the jet I work on! An F-15C model. With the way the Air Force works, they probably forgot it was there. It was probably cannibalized for all of its parts after it failed a depot or phased inspection for frame damage. The cold up there does some serious damage to the strength of the frames. That and corrosion probably runs rampant up there. Cool find though.
Pork Eating Crusader! |
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Coop711
Location: North Las Vegas, Nevada
Gender: Male
| | Re: Abandoned F-15 carcass near Anchorage
<Reply # 19 on 9/15/2011 9:01 AM >
| | | | Heyyy! It's the jet I work on! An F-15C model. With the way the Air Force works, they probably forgot it was there. It was probably cannibalized for all of its parts after it failed a depot or phased inspection for frame damage. The cold up there does some serious damage to the strength of the frames. That and corrosion probably runs rampant up there. Cool find though.
Pork Eating Crusader! |
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