Good Luck You Are On Your Own Issue 4 ideas and requests

[Jason Weiser]

May be more likely to destroy them. I doubt the Mexicans are in any better shape to keep any significant amount of aircraft flying than the Americans are. Then again, if they recover anything, it will most likely be some C-130s.

[Olefin]

The Mexicans did fly some aircraft that were at storage at Davis-Monthan and may at the least have been able to get spares they needed to keep their planes going.

And there are refineries in the US going - even the one mentioned in Howling Wilderness as only being at 1 percent of capacity could still turn out a hell of a lot of fuel that planes need - and as pointed out previously what the military was running on was jet fuel not gas or diesel - so the issue of avgas is really only an issue for prop planes not for jets

and the latest issue of the fanzine had information on the aircraft in the Middle East - both canon (planes in East Africa) and a mix of canon and improvement on what there was that was stated in the RDF (Middle East)

[Legbreaker]

Replacement parts are the big issue with aircraft, which also require a LOT of maintenance.
There was a rather indepth discussion some time ago about aircraft on this forum. One of the points that has stuck in my mind against there being many aircraft is that if a tank breaks down (or suffers damage), it stops. If a plane breaks down while in motion, it doesn't stop.....until it hits the ground.

[Matt Wiser]

AMARC would've been pretty much cleaned out of flyable aircraft by the time of the Mexican invasion (assuming, of course, you want to use that in your timeline).

[Olefin]

Originally Posted by Matt Wiser

AMARC would've been pretty much cleaned out of flyable aircraft by the time of the Mexican invasion (assuming, of course, you want to use that in your timeline).

If they were looking for old planes to strip for spare parts they would be looking for either T-33's, F-5's, C-54's, C-130's, C-47's or C-118's. For instance there were 78 T-33's in storage there in 2000 - meaning that the Mexicans could have found ample spare parts for their T-33's they were using in their Air Force.