Yak Hunting in Liberia
Jan 14, 2014, 6:17 pm
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Yak Hunting in Liberia
There's just something fascinating and evocative about old abandoned airplanes.
Join me on a photo essay from Roberts Field, Liberia, where we visit a decomposing Yak-40....
http://www.askthepilot.com/yak-hunting-in-liberia/
"...We see these planes as monuments, perhaps? To the men and women who flew them, to the passengers who rode aboard them — and most extraordinary of all, to the the places these planes have been. The difference between the peculiar grandeur of an old abandoned building, for instance, and that of an old abandoned airplane, is that the building existed only in a fixed location. Airplanes, they’ve been everywhere..."
Patrick Smith
Join me on a photo essay from Roberts Field, Liberia, where we visit a decomposing Yak-40....
http://www.askthepilot.com/yak-hunting-in-liberia/
"...We see these planes as monuments, perhaps? To the men and women who flew them, to the passengers who rode aboard them — and most extraordinary of all, to the the places these planes have been. The difference between the peculiar grandeur of an old abandoned building, for instance, and that of an old abandoned airplane, is that the building existed only in a fixed location. Airplanes, they’ve been everywhere..."
Patrick Smith
Jan 22, 2014, 7:57 am
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Very interesting article.
I recently read Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible, and I wonder if that Yak was one of the planes that was in Victor Bout's fleet.
Thanks for sharing.
Edit: Looks like it may have been.
I recently read Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible, and I wonder if that Yak was one of the planes that was in Victor Bout's fleet.
Thanks for sharing.
Edit: Looks like it may have been.
Last edited by sparkchaser; Jan 22, 2014 at 8:06 am