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I'm feeling a bit nostalgic today, but not in a good way.

I know all man-made machines will eventually become of such little value that they will be seen simply as scrap, but to see a once glorious aircraft that I worked on simply sit in a yard like this and be allowed to rot away is heartbreaking.

And even more heartbreaking is knowing that it was destroyed by fire earlier this year.

Such a sad end....







And this is the aircraft sitting in the yard prior to the fire..



What she looked like back in her early days: