Rusty,
A lot of aviation stuff and other materiel was buried in the southwest U.S. deserts. My father was an eyewitness to the digging of trenches with bulldozers and dumping of aviation engines, jeeps, guns packed in cosmoline grease and cetera. Given the climate and conditions, a whole lotta this stuff is probably still out there and salvageable... but it never will be. I imagine it's all still on government land. A wonderful adventure dream to retrieve it.
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their structure was made from plywood
Reed, I have a little bit of this historical plywood. Not many years after the war, plywood was pressure formed into wooden pleasure boat hulls--kind of the transition between lapstrake and fiberglas construction. My old '61 Trojan runabout uses this stuff extensively, and whatever kind of adhesives and wood (oak) and preservatives that they used is amazing stuff. It WILL NOT deteriorate, warp, de-laminate, or take a screw without drilling first. Stuff is amazing, and I doubt it's been made that way since WWII era. It's probably toxic as hell, but boy does it hold up. Just another example (like the internet we're using now), of the public taking swords and beating them into plowshares (or interstate highways.)
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