Chop 'em up, and move 'em out...

This afternoon, I was over seeing the family in Greybull. Dad and I went out to the airport since one of his clients was coming to get his airplane, as the annual inspection upon it was complete. After that was taken care of, we drove out to the storage ramp where a salvage crew is hard at work beginning to scrap some of the aircraft in the world famous former collection of the now defunct Hawkins & Powers Aviation. At this point, the things that have been ripped to shreds have been the planes that were too far gone to ever fly again... Several gutted Fairchild C-119 Boxcars (which is what the pile of rubble in the above picture was), several gutted Lockheed P2V-7 Neptunes, and a Lockheed P-3 Orion that had it's nacelles removed many years ago for a grand and ambitious project to retrofit a Neptune with the Allison T-56 Turbines from off of it... That project was never completed... I bet the "Turbine Neptune" will soon be meeting it's demise at the end of those pinchers on that Hyundai Trackhoe...