[Milsurplus] "The Warbird Saviors"

[Hubert Miller]

"Flight Journal" magazine,  has an August 2019 issue article, "The Warbird Saviors", which looks at the historic aircraft restoration niche business in the U.S.A.
In a paragraph about the bomber aircraft restoration business "Aero Trader", Chino CA, this:

"Scholl continues, 'I bought 40 acres out in the desert, got my friend Tony interested and involved, and started buying B-25 parts everywhere we could find
them. Sometimes, they were airframes - we have six projects now - more often, they were just heaps of what looked like scrap, but to us, they were ancient
treasures...when we were hauling stuff, like armor plate and gun turrets out to the desert, we had no idea how useful they'd eventually be....small parts like
those were always junked on military airplanes as soon as they were put into civilian service We, for instance, have two 40-foot containers full of nothing but
old military radio gear. When the market began to shift toward authenticity, as opposed to just flyable and usable, all the stuff we'd scrounged became like
gold' ".

My  comment: well, maybe not quite gold, maybe more like silver. I trust they got a lot of control boxes and connectors especially !
-Hue
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