Planelopnik

"Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius" (rex-imperator) 06/13/2016 at 13:12 • Filed to: None

4

15

So I’m on Google Earth looking at the Downtown West region of St Louis because... reasons.

Anyway, I pan west into what is call the ‘Gate District’ and I see the very distinctive outline of an F-105 Thunderchief. Then on F-84, then Sikorskys. Then a B-52 nose. What the??

Maybe Tyler can have is very own S-3 Viking!

Dusty Ventures > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 06/13/2016 at 13:23

0

If I lived anywhere near there I would no be in my car going to check it out

Sneaky Pete > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 06/13/2016 at 13:26

0

Also looks like there’s an F-111 fuselage on the left side of the lot.

Hammerdown > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 06/13/2016 at 13:31

0

Any luck going to street view and figuring out what this place is?

facw > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 06/13/2016 at 13:33

0

Looks like they’ve added to the collection since street view was there in 2011:

The imagery from the front is from 2015 though (looks to be an auto body shop):

facw > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 06/13/2016 at 13:39

0

That’s not an S-3, it’s an S-2:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/11581147@N06/16362105374/in/photostream/

facw > facw 06/13/2016 at 13:49

0

Also from Bing’s street view:

https://bit.ly/1UqFS7l

My hovercraft is full of eels > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 06/13/2016 at 14:08

0

Is that a Piasecki H-21 among the choppers?

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > Sneaky Pete 06/13/2016 at 14:15

0

Intakes are wrong. I know it’s a swing wing something. I know it sounds crazy, but it looks more like an SU-24

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > Hammerdown 06/13/2016 at 14:18

1

They sell trucks and deal in old airplanes it seems. No website

Spaceball-Two > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 06/13/2016 at 14:21

0

Mig 23 Flogger

Spaceball-Two > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 06/13/2016 at 14:23

0

Someone needs to put that Mig 23 back together and get it certified and on the airshow circuit!

facw > Spaceball-Two 06/13/2016 at 14:48

0

Yep, you can see it quite clearly in the bing streetside image I posted below. Who knows why there is a random MiG-23 at a St. Louis auto shop, but there it is.

Spaceball-Two > facw 06/13/2016 at 14:51

1

There are a handful of them around. I was heading South on Interstate 5 in WA a number of years ago and a Mig 23 was headed the opposite direction on the back of a flat bed truck. Quite an odd site.

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > My hovercraft is full of eels 06/13/2016 at 15:19

0

Could be but that frame is bigger than what I imagine those to be. I think you’re right, I think I’m just startled with the scale.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 06/14/2016 at 14:50

0

Those appear to be a couple F-106 fuselages on the left side of the photo. Quite the collection he’s got going there.