Raed Lockheed especially the L-1011s! I was a FE on the L-1011. Amazing creation, This video is like 20 forks across a chalkboard and losing an old friend,
This is sad, but it's certainly not wasteful! Examples of these planes are in museums for our children to enjoy. As much as I love the L-1011, I wouldn't fly in them anymore. After so many thousands of flights, the metal in the planes cannot hold up under pressure. Better for them to get cut up and recycled - used for different purposes - than to sit idly in the desert as pollution, or going up in the air as a hazard.
I work on Mojave airport (designing rockets) and in our conference room we have some salvaged airliner seats backed up against the wall for extra seating. Kinda adds to the ambience...
Sad way to go and I hope someone had the foresight to save at least one L-1011 for a museum some where. Those old birds were awesome in the day and yes, I understand recycle and saving money on operating costs but gone are the old DC-8, Stretch 8's, L-1011 to name a few. Would love to be able to show the grand kids this is what I flew in back in the 60's and 70's.
I nearly want to cry, knowing a lot of beautiful tristars, 707's and dc9's are scrapped, destroyed for nothing, planes still capable of flight, beautiful classic 747's, all destroyed :( I really want to become a pilot, but the fact that i won't be able to fly those beautiful classics anymore really bothers me.. i miss the steam gauges on the aircraft today, it just doesn't feel and look right. Sometimes i'm just like "Let's look in the boneyard if they got some airworthy plane here and steal it out of here" I just can't handle seeing how many beautiful planes are being scrapped
+deWaardt Perhaps it doesn't look and feel right, but it's safe, reliable and quiet nowadays. As much as I love the sound of a Maddog ripping through the sky above my head, I wouldn't want to hear it hundreds of times a day living in close proximity to a major airport. It's much more pleasant to have those quiet A319s and A320s instead.
Capable of flying? I know they are classics, and have a beautiful history, but there os a problem, na,ely "metal fatigue" on structural components like the wing mounts and wing beams. Fuselage joints and so on. So better safe then sorry
Sad as it is to see these beautiful classic aircraft scrapped, they're not really goin to waste. most have reached the end of their serviceable lives, and/or are not efficient to for the airlines to use. sometimes the truth is that they are better off being recycled to be made into electronics and such. However I must agree that at least a few rare planes like the Tristars and Coronados be restored to airworthiness, or at least be displayed. i would love to make an old DC-10 into a house :)
oh I'd love to :) a 747 especially...you could turn the upper deck into a huge bedroom and the lower deck into a very large living room...but I would add some larger windows in the fuselage..and you could always make some kind of terrace on the wings :)
A 737 is worth around 10000$ of aluminum only. Thats totally affordable. But i bet my ass of you want the avionics bay to be complete, interior and cockpit instruments so thats a pretty expensive joke. But if you want a massive tube only with wings, 10000$ and you can take it home
Good point, and I thought the above was the worst. They should have flown those beautiful Tomcats to any airport that would take them, to be put on display.
it's very hard to watch when such beauties are cut and scrapped. makes my heart cry, especially when I saw the scrapped a beautiful Convair Coronado 990
@goldcoastflyer In all fairness, aluminium does suffer from metal fatigue over a period of load cycles and so there will be a time when micro-cracks in the structure will become more likely to become propagation cracks. Unlike steel, aluminium doesn't have an endurance limit. Plus there's the economics of running the thing.
No words to express the sadness I feel watching the way life ends for these beautiful birds. This is the final paycheck for several decades of faithful service carrying safely thousand and thousand of people through the skies. This is really not fair, these are pieces of history brutally scrapped to make a profit till their last blood's drop. So sad.
L-1011s had a lot of life left in them when they were all retired. The real reason was that they were a limited run and parts could not be sourced easily, especially that Lockheed Martin was no longer in the passenger airliner business. The debut of the 777 and especially the 767-400 and the -300ER signed their death warrant. TL/DR; they died before their time, this is why people are so upset.
I could be wrong, however in long run the metal is as the call it getting tired. Which means it can break more easy it loses its elasticity. So it would be hazardous to used it.
Damn, now I see why the Delta Airlines' L-1011, and 727 jets are not around anymore. As I heard someone say, that most of those jets were retired before their time, some of the DC-10s, 727s, L-1011s, and 747s were a few of the planes that was mentioned, as well as the DC-9s, and 737s.
Alexander Cribeiro I was thinking the same thing. I grew up around these planes and flew on a lot of them. I'd rather see them scrapping a regional jet or an Airbus, than these.
The TWA Tristar was cut up at Kingman, AZ. And there is footage rom Victorville, CA as well. Have visited all these places and i like the storage part of it, but not the scrapping. But like he says.. it's a job !
It's funny... L-1011's always get the most sympathy when at the bone yard out of any other plane. Most likely because it was the best plane ever made, and it's limited production run. Still amuses me though. "Look, its a 747 getting scrOMG IS THAT AN TRISTAR? NOT THE TRISTAR.... ANYTHING BUT THE TRISTAR!!!!"
@WITCG1 Sure enough, this is heartbreaking but it would be even more heartbreaking if an airliner tore apart in the sky because the pressurised fuselage had expanded and contracted to destruction because the plane had flown for more than the 20 years it is permitted to fly. Those planes weren't permitted to fly anymore.
My dad flew the ATA L1011 that was being ripped up. I agree with the comment that it is watching the family dog being eaten. This was quite unpleasant to watch.
I never could've imagined that only 20 years after seeing them active in commercial aviation, all airplanes bearing the TWA logo would be getting broke up.
@happyfa Its not wastefull, Aluminium doesnt live forever. Beccause of that the plane has a limmited life. You dont want to replace the wing-beam beccause it is easier to start over building a new plane out of melted down old ones.
Its sad. But the metal is very important to be recycled and reused again. But many times they break up aircraft that still have many good years of life left in them.
L-1011s, CV-880s, 747s, DC-9s, 727s, these all need to be saved fromt the scrapyards! If they dont get put in museums soon, there could be none left in the world someday! Just look at what happened to the Boeing Clipper for example.
so sad to see...I can understand at some point they just aren't safe enough to fly anymore....but still it's not a pleasant sight to see such beauties being cut up :(
It seems like they should do something with them....having been a Flight Attendant, it is sad t watch this...In Costa Rica they used a 727 and made it into a hotel....
Ironic that the LOCOWEED L-1011 P.O.S. is being chopped up about 20 miles from where it was built. Sorry to see that very rare CONVAIR 990 die, but they had corrosion issues from the factory in the 60's and were not cheap to operate even in the days of 11c a gallon jet fuel, but BOY! would they haul the mail!!!
Given their age, and the fact that getting someone to restore one is an expensive hobby (just ask John Travolta about his QANTAS Boeing 707) it's best they be salvaged for whatever can save others of their kind than to fall from the sky in a huge fireball
Such a waste of aircraft the l1011 was my favorite and to see it being destroyed its so. Upsetting I'm a aviation fan and I loved those l1011s since I was a kid. Why can't they make more l1011s and modernise them.
Surpiciously, I ask, what is the scrap value of these planes? Or are they not for sale in order to keep the prices of new planes up in the stratosphere?
It's their job to rip them apart. They just do it, they don't chose, mourn, or hesitate... They don't enjoy the end of these airplanes, but the sheer destruction itself. A destruction which is proven to be useful. Scrap has a big importance in our life.
I couldn't live with myself if I had to distroy a plane. I would cry during the whole process. Know what instead of being the one who kills planes I will be the one who flies on them and make lots of trip reports. In 4 years time I am flying on a Lufthansa 747-800.
Why Totally destroy say an L-1011,747,747SP. Many people,including me would love to buy the front cockpit section and use it for building purposes? Make a DJ booth out of one. So many things one can do,just to keep those memories alive. Sell that stuff to the public..The Seats, etc....WHY DESTROY? What a waste.
That front section of a 747 is probably worth $800 to $1500 of quality 6061 aluminum. If you pay them, you may have it. I would love to have one over-wing emergency doors of a 737 or a320
Lorenzo van het Hul Thing is, How would I or anyone even contact someone responsible to purchase a plane part or even an airplane? Great way to start ones own "Cheap fare" airline if they have throwaway cash? Another Lotto possibility of mine...
bocaitalian good question. But if you contact the company of the plane, you might get to the right person and discuss with him. Again, a nose of a 747 is worth little in aluminum. But they probably will sell it to you for 20k$ +
Theses planes have togo. Theres no two ways about to to continue to fly them is out of the question because the air frames are out of usable life and could come apart in mid air. I love airplanes my self ( I hold an instrument rating and am looking into going commercial ) and would love to see these birds still fly but understand that they can't.
if i work there i will take all the cool pices out and destroy the rest. I wanna take cockpit stuff and galley stuff and seatbelts and mask for air. Ect. Really cool
Very sad. To see an L-1011 being scrapped hits a me in a somewhat sad way, since i was an Engineer on it before. An amazing bird and creation.
When I saw them cutting that L-1011 in half, I felt like cutting them in half.
YEAH SAME
For a pilot, watching this video is like eating the family dog.
for every aviation enthusiast,it is! It's hard to watch the video without cringing!
Raed Lockheed especially the L-1011s! I was a FE on the L-1011. Amazing creation, This video is like 20 forks across a chalkboard and losing an old friend,
As a mechanic, I an glad to see them go!
I'm gonna hug my 747 now.
@@kokaboba why do you think pilots cry when they have to say farewell to their planes? To a pilot a plane is a living being .
aircrafts have such a majestic life and then such an undignified end
This is sad, but it's certainly not wasteful!
Examples of these planes are in museums for our children to enjoy. As much as I love the L-1011, I wouldn't fly in them anymore. After so many thousands of flights, the metal in the planes cannot hold up under pressure.
Better for them to get cut up and recycled - used for different purposes - than to sit idly in the desert as pollution, or going up in the air as a hazard.
I work on Mojave airport (designing rockets) and in our conference room we have some salvaged airliner seats backed up against the wall for extra seating. Kinda adds to the ambience...
Sad way to go and I hope someone had the foresight to save at least one L-1011 for a museum some where. Those old birds were awesome in the day and yes, I understand recycle and saving money on operating costs but gone are the old DC-8, Stretch 8's, L-1011 to name a few. Would love to be able to show the grand kids this is what I flew in back in the 60's and 70's.
I nearly want to cry, knowing a lot of beautiful tristars, 707's and dc9's are scrapped, destroyed for nothing, planes still capable of flight, beautiful classic 747's, all destroyed :(
I really want to become a pilot, but the fact that i won't be able to fly those beautiful classics anymore really bothers me.. i miss the steam gauges on the aircraft today, it just doesn't feel and look right.
Sometimes i'm just like "Let's look in the boneyard if they got some airworthy plane here and steal it out of here"
I just can't handle seeing how many beautiful planes are being scrapped
+deWaardt Perhaps it doesn't look and feel right, but it's safe, reliable and quiet nowadays. As much as I love the sound of a Maddog ripping through the sky above my head, I wouldn't want to hear it hundreds of times a day living in close proximity to a major airport. It's much more pleasant to have those quiet A319s and A320s instead.
+davidtsw exactly
Capable of flying? I know they are classics, and have a beautiful history, but there os a problem, na,ely "metal fatigue" on structural components like the wing mounts and wing beams. Fuselage joints and so on. So better safe then sorry
@@davidtswGood point (and I love those roaring, thundering, and screaming old planes.)
Usually after about 20-30 years of flying after production. Depends on flight hours too. Some were scrapped in 10 years or so and some 50 years.
Sad as it is to see these beautiful classic aircraft scrapped, they're not really goin to waste. most have reached the end of their serviceable lives, and/or are not efficient to for the airlines to use. sometimes the truth is that they are better off being recycled to be made into electronics and such. However I must agree that at least a few rare planes like the Tristars and Coronados be restored to airworthiness, or at least be displayed. i would love to make an old DC-10 into a house :)
I like the imitation Terminator music in the background... fitting.
oh I'd love to :) a 747 especially...you could turn the upper deck into a huge bedroom and the lower deck into a very large living room...but I would add some larger windows in the fuselage..and you could always make some kind of terrace on the wings :)
I might add sash windows. A plane with sash windows.
Oh come on, I would literally build a house out of these birds!! Also have one room a cockpit to build a flight sim into :)
A 737 is worth around 10000$ of aluminum only. Thats totally affordable. But i bet my ass of you want the avionics bay to be complete, interior and cockpit instruments so thats a pretty expensive joke. But if you want a massive tube only with wings, 10000$ and you can take it home
I'd pay that all day long :)
A 747 is worth 30000$ of aluminum alloy, i think thats a better choice for a pretty home!
exactly :) Sickest home ever! LOL
Definitely, but keep in mind, even tough it costs $30000 in raw aluminum, they still sell it for over $100000 to $150000 unfortunately
Don't forget the Navy F-14s that get scrapped, makes me cry!
I'm sorry it makes you say. To make you feel better, I cry when I see an antique car getting destroyed. :(
Good point, and I thought the above was the worst. They should have flown those beautiful Tomcats to any airport that would take them, to be put on display.
Imagine seeing the Boeing 787 in the scrapyard, that would be a huge loss, considering how rare they are right now.
That random guy lurking in the comment section yeah but there are a lot now
SIL3NTxK1LL Racing hello that’s was I was about to do lol
Yup, they're common now.
Well a test 787 was scrapped and two Norwegian 787's are going to be scrapped.
I wish I can live inside an aeroplane...
because I love aeroplane and I always want to be a pilot. This is another way to achieve my dreams
it's very hard to watch when such beauties are cut and scrapped. makes my heart cry, especially when I saw the scrapped a beautiful Convair Coronado 990
"Dad, what do you do?"
"I bulldoze motherf*****g airplanes for a living, sweety."
@goldcoastflyer
In all fairness, aluminium does suffer from metal fatigue over a period of load cycles and so there will be a time when micro-cracks in the structure will become more likely to become propagation cracks. Unlike steel, aluminium doesn't have an endurance limit.
Plus there's the economics of running the thing.
At minute 4:53, that used to be US Air Shuttle Boeing 727. Its sad to see this planes turn into scrap...
No words to express the sadness I feel watching the way life ends for these beautiful birds.
This is the final paycheck for several decades of faithful service carrying safely thousand and thousand of people through the skies.
This is really not fair, these are pieces of history brutally scrapped to make a profit till their last blood's drop.
So sad.
These large demolition machines are can scrap very large airplanes (A380, C-5, Am-124, An-225) too.
L-1011s had a lot of life left in them when they were all retired. The real reason was that they were a limited run and parts could not be sourced easily, especially that Lockheed Martin was no longer in the passenger airliner business. The debut of the 777 and especially the 767-400 and the -300ER signed their death warrant.
TL/DR; they died before their time, this is why people are so upset.
It explains a lot.
Think of it this way. Every aircraft is reborn into phones tablets, computers, and even other aircraft. Aircraft live on even if they cant fly anymore
It almost makes me cry....
I know but that's what they are doing
I could be wrong, however in long run the metal is as the call it getting tired. Which means it can break more easy it loses its elasticity. So it would be hazardous to used it.
Damn, now I see why the Delta Airlines' L-1011, and 727 jets are not around anymore. As I heard someone say, that most of those jets were retired before their time, some of the DC-10s, 727s, L-1011s, and 747s were a few of the planes that was mentioned, as well as the DC-9s, and 737s.
I can't watch this! its like watching someone die!
Alexander Cribeiro I was thinking the same thing. I grew up around these planes and flew on a lot of them. I'd rather see them scrapping a regional jet or an Airbus, than these.
+seeburg220 yeah. I know right
XD
If you don't like it don't watch it.
Once the airframe is timed out it is pretty much scrap, it is better to make of the metals then to just let it sit and rot. it's not a waste
I wish I had a big enough back yard to buy a DC-9 and make it my permanent home haha!
The TWA Tristar was cut up at Kingman, AZ. And there is footage rom Victorville, CA as well.
Have visited all these places and i like the storage part of it, but not the scrapping.
But like he says.. it's a job !
It's funny... L-1011's always get the most sympathy when at the bone yard out of any other plane. Most likely because it was the best plane ever made, and it's limited production run. Still amuses me though. "Look, its a 747 getting scrOMG IS THAT AN TRISTAR? NOT THE TRISTAR.... ANYTHING BUT THE TRISTAR!!!!"
@WITCG1 Sure enough, this is heartbreaking but it would be even more heartbreaking if an airliner tore apart in the sky because the pressurised fuselage had expanded and contracted to destruction because the plane had flown for more than the 20 years it is permitted to fly. Those planes weren't permitted to fly anymore.
Scrap to 747&DC-10&L-1011&MD-11. But, I Love these airplanes 😢
That guy said he LIKES to cut airplanes. Lets see how much he likes his machine *mysteriously* explodes
My dad flew the ATA L1011 that was being ripped up. I agree with the comment that it is watching the family dog being eaten. This was quite unpleasant to watch.
This really hurts to watch.....all those classic golden aviation widebodies, DC-10ʻs L-1011ʻs 747-100/200ʻs, DC-9ʻs, 737-200ʻs.
I never could've imagined that only 20 years after seeing them active in commercial aviation, all airplanes bearing the TWA logo would be getting broke up.
Stop breaking the L1011s!! They are so rare and beautiful!!
yea and the 727's 😡
micmil320 I think the same, it's the best plane ever
There are still several out there. Be glad there are still planes out there.
@@AirborneRenegade Amen to that: 727's and L-1011's.
Open your wallet and buy one!
@happyfa Its not wastefull, Aluminium doesnt live forever. Beccause of that the plane has a limmited life. You dont want to replace the wing-beam beccause it is easier to start over building a new plane out of melted down old ones.
Its sad. But the metal is very important to be recycled and reused again. But many times they break up aircraft that still have many good years of life left in them.
L-1011s, CV-880s, 747s, DC-9s, 727s, these all need to be saved fromt the scrapyards! If they dont get put in museums soon, there could be none left in the world someday! Just look at what happened to the Boeing Clipper for example.
It’s hard to watch this video because I love planes very much .
this hurts more than getting stabbed with a dull knife and slowly dying in the desert
Very interesting,where do the jet engines go to & can you buy them?
glad no concordes got through that hell......they are much better in museums. sad for those airplanes. Really.
NOOO... Not the L-1011's! Give them to me! I'll care for them... :'( Beautiful aircraft were they.
2:30 "pilots to passengers.. pardon the mild turbulence.."
My old man flew several of the a/c in this video....very sad to see their demise.
The plane at 6:00 is an old TWA plane....Man I miss that airline. Pan Am & Eastern also.
I thought that L-1011 looked familiar, thought it was from SWAT.
It's like watching an autopsy or an embalming.
@WITCG1 truly a tear-jerking video for all airplane likers =/
This is history that they are tearing apart. Does anyone know what happened to the Gimli Glider?
so sad to see...I can understand at some point they just aren't safe enough to fly anymore....but still it's not a pleasant sight to see such beauties being cut up :(
Dad: Why are you crying so darn loud?
There's a lot of yummy aluminum in those planes.
8 years and not a single like lol😂
3:02 Goodbye my favorite aircraft! The Delta L-1011 N724DA!
It's sad to see these babies being shredded but all admit i think it would be hella fun to tear one of these up.
It seems like they should do something with them....having been a Flight Attendant, it is sad t watch this...In Costa Rica they used a 727 and made it into a hotel....
Cool!!!
707, 717, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, 777, DC-8, DC-9, DC-10, L-1011, CV880, CV900, they're will scrap in Mohave airport.
I flew the TWA L-1011 at 7:35. Sad to see her end up in the scrap heap!
if someone had the money it is possible buy a part of the plane to turn it into a room of the house putting it on the roof?
No they re-use certain parts like Engines and other stuff, they don't just melt the whole thing down and make another out of all the same shit.
Ironic that the LOCOWEED L-1011 P.O.S. is being chopped up about 20 miles from where it was built. Sorry to see that very rare CONVAIR 990 die, but they had corrosion issues from the factory in the 60's and were not cheap to operate even in the days of 11c a gallon jet fuel, but BOY! would they haul the mail!!!
These good old L1011's. ITS SO SAD!!!
Videospotter (HamburgMobile) 6:35 dead MD-11 hanging around.
Given their age, and the fact that getting someone to restore one is an expensive hobby (just ask John Travolta about his QANTAS Boeing 707) it's best they be salvaged for whatever can save others of their kind than to fall from the sky in a huge fireball
Wonder what they do with the engines?
The planes should be VERY THICK METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 25 inches or more to piss off scrappers!
HAONAN CHU Yep...no plane abuse anymore!
That maybe too heavy
I just went threw a box of tissues
Aluminum runs the better part of a dollar per pound, and planes can weigh upwards of 100k pounds. Why is this so hard for people to understand?
Such a waste of aircraft the l1011 was my favorite and to see it being destroyed its so. Upsetting I'm a aviation fan and I loved those l1011s since I was a kid. Why can't they make more l1011s and modernise them.
id love to live in one of them
Poor TRISTARS, omg! TWA !!!
I'm going to cry..... This is too hard to watch...
I couldnt even rip the wings off of that thing
I wanna see something rip that excavator to bits, like a super excavator driven by a pilot.
I think you can buy the airplanes at Mojave. For a scrapper these beuties only has a financial value.
what are the fates of the seats that removed from a scrap passenger aircraft ?
Can them be sold or anyway , destroyed saperarely???
I want to know the fate of plane windows?
Surpiciously, I ask, what is the scrap value of these planes? Or are they not for sale in order to keep the prices of new planes up in the stratosphere?
It's their job to rip them apart. They just do it, they don't chose, mourn, or hesitate... They don't enjoy the end of these airplanes, but the sheer destruction itself. A destruction which is proven to be useful. Scrap has a big importance in our life.
how are they going to handle the seats in 7:37? will they scrap the seats as well?
do they make soda can's out of the metal ?
Planes have souls!
for the most part, sell for reuse or scap.
Is this in Arizona or someting ??
I couldn't live with myself if I had to distroy a plane. I would cry during the whole process. Know what instead of being the one who kills planes I will be the one who flies on them and make lots of trip reports. In 4 years time I am flying on a Lufthansa 747-800.
sad to see the old twa planes
I think they mean 700.000 lbs of cutting force
Why Totally destroy say an L-1011,747,747SP. Many people,including me would love to buy the front cockpit section and use it for building purposes? Make a DJ booth out of one. So many things one can do,just to keep those memories alive. Sell that stuff to the public..The Seats, etc....WHY DESTROY? What a waste.
+bocaitalian Money, of course. Guaranteed from the scrap yard.
They could use it to develop flight training simulators.
That front section of a 747 is probably worth $800 to $1500 of quality 6061 aluminum. If you pay them, you may have it.
I would love to have one over-wing emergency doors of a 737 or a320
Lorenzo van het Hul Thing is, How would I or anyone even contact someone responsible to purchase a plane part or even an airplane? Great way to start ones own "Cheap fare" airline if they have throwaway cash? Another Lotto possibility of mine...
bocaitalian good question. But if you contact the company of the plane, you might get to the right person and discuss with him. Again, a nose of a 747 is worth little in aluminum. But they probably will sell it to you for 20k$ +
Theses planes have togo. Theres no two ways about to to continue to fly them is out of the question because the air frames are out of usable life and could come apart in mid air. I love airplanes my self ( I hold an instrument rating and am looking into going commercial ) and would love to see these birds still fly but understand that they can't.
if all of those planes were airbusses, it would of been alright...
how much money do they make at the end of the day running these machines and paying these people?
if i work there i will take all the cool pices out and destroy the rest. I wanna take cockpit stuff and galley stuff and seatbelts and mask for air. Ect. Really cool
Hurts to see my favourite airplane being torn apart in front of my eyes.
i would only do that job to get to explore the place and planes for free
notice @ 6:19 The Delta L1011 Tristar
I cant watch this.. its like gutting me to see it.. how silly, but aviators love their airplanes//
What is the name of this episode?
Imagine how much all that aluminium is worth