Arizona trip

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu Apr 12 18:17:26 2001

I knew about the converted one, I've seen pictures of it from a friend of
mine that visited the people but can't remember where it was located. I
wouldn't have guessed that since Start that anyone could utilize a recently
deactivated silo as part of the treaty inspections was onsite verification
that the site(s) were made useless, usually by filling with concrete or by
imploding with explosives. I went out on one in Wyoming in 92 as aprt of an
inspection team and it was a site and sound when the charges went off. What
really sucked was that they ground up full B-52s into scraps that weren't
even active anymore in IL, they were used for static display and training.
No engines, just pods.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Chuck McManis
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 1:49 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Arizona trip
>
>
> For the last 5 to 10 years you could _buy_ a silo from the Gov't
> as long as
> you promised not to reactivate it :-) There is an article in Popular
> Science about a couple that converted one to living space.
>
> At a dinner I attended one person there claimed to have bought
> one (can you
> say crazy but lucky Silicon Valley type that got out of the market in
> time?) and has been renovating it for living/storage space. There were
> several different types, the vertical Titan II types and the horizontal
> Minuteman types. (He has a vertical one I believe) It had quite a bit of
> equipment left behind in it that wasn't considered worth either
> destroying
> or hauling out (much gear was carried in as pieces and assembled inside).
> The most useful thing that he has salvaged was the Onan 50Kw power
> generator that supplies power, the "coolest" thing is the "scram
> lift" that
> gets you down to the bottom really quickly.
>
> Now frankly he certainly had the means to pull this off but I
> give his tale
> only about 40% credibility rating as there is something of the story
> telling aspect to it. He offered a tour when it was done so I'll
> follow up
> when I get his call to come visit ...
>
> --Chuck
>
> At 02:12 PM 4/12/2001 -0400, jeff wrote:
> > I don't know if it was for Titan's, but I ran across a
> webpage a
> > couple of years ago that showed a photographic tour of a missle
> silo that
> > the photographer and his buddy had managed to gain access to. The silo
> > had been under padlock and parts of it were flooded and/or
> caved in, but
> > there were still parts to equipment and such down there. It was pretty
> > interesting.
>
>
>
>
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