Aircraft boneyards of the world

[gambit]

Some day am going to pack up my bags take a long bike ride to the Boneyard. I know crew chiefs from my time in the UK who found 'their' jets -- F-111s -- languishing in the desert and some of these retired guys cannot help but wept at the conditions of 'their' jets. A world from when they labored, sweated, and bled, days and nights, in all weather, to keep them flying. Pilots and crew dawgs have their names on jets, but it is the dawgs who have the most emotional attachment to the aircrafts. A visit to the Boneyard and if possible a return to Upper Heyford before the Brits completely demolish the base are on my 'bucket list'.

Update: The scuttlebutt in the -111 community is that ALL -111s at AMARC have been destroyed as of 2012. Either all or most.

 

[truthlover]

A great thread)Thanks

 

[A.Rafay]

 

[Super Falcon]

why not recycle them than keeping them like this

 

[Manticore]

AMARC Experience - AMARC Experience (A10s in western most, left part)
The AMARC Experience - Area Guide (read)

Penguin

 

[Manticore]

Pakistan - Air Force
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Photos: Aero S-105 (MiG-19S) Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net

Pakistan - Air Force
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[خره مينه لګته وي]

Aircraft Boneyard

The desert: a spiritual respite. It's harsh, unforgiving and merciless, and there's a whole bunch of it right outside of Tucson, so you can swing into an In-N-Out Burger for a Sprite break if shit gets too real in the Mojave. You won't go tripping over the abandoned detritus of a world war in a place like this, right? Right. Just crest this one last dune and --

This is just outside the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tuscon, Arizona. It's called the Boneyard, and it's where military aircraft go to die. The arid desert climate is perfect for mothballing aircraft with minimal damage to their components, so they can be cannibalized for scrap later. But these are junk planes, right? Surely nothing valuable is just sprawled out in the desert sun waiting for somebody to figure out what to do with it. Well, a closer look shows the profile of a number of recognizable aircraft, including B-52s (B-52H models cost upwards of $50 million each) and F-14 jets (of Top Gun fame, and each of which cost $38 million to produce). And there are hundreds upon hundreds of them, all just sitting out there, oxidizing.

At Davis-Monthan, there are over 4,000 planes waiting in the desert just to be torn apart. Which might be sad for aviation fans and infuriating for fiscal conservatives, but it sure makes for some awesome Google Earth pictures for bored Internet explorers.
- For Google Earth Pictures click ------- > HERE

Yes, this is inexplicably one of the higher-res Google Earth locations (some things just feel classified, you know?),and you can zoom in close enough to easily make out any number of models in various states of disrepair. It's like a huge browser-based game of Where's Waldo?, only instead of looking for a bespectacled Canadian mime at the zoo, you're looking for a live missile in a haystack made of billion-dollar aircraft.

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By Eric Yosomono
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[alimobin memon]

what jet are these ?

 

[Penguin]

what jet are these ?

They look like early F-18A