re: #284 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Incidentally, I learned to fly at this same airport, now known as Mojave Air and Space Port.

Then, as now, the area was covered with recently retired airliners, the civil counterpart to the military’s Arizona boneyard. In those days, they were DC-6s and Connies rather than 747s and Airbuses, but the process of chopping them up and recycling the material was largely the same. It bothers many aviation enthusiasts to see this, but I have never had a problem with it as long as at least some examples are preserved. The material is valuable and in the case of aluminum, for example, the environmental cost of recycling is dramatically lower than extracting it from raw materials. Some materials, like titanium, have strategic importance beyond their monetary value.