I found this a while ago. I don't know how many of you guys are aviation buffs, but it's kind of interesting. I'd love to visit this place someday.
It also mentions Australia several times, so it made me think of these boards. Anyway, here it is:
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The Boneyard - biggest aviation graveyard in the world kind of surreal
- #1
- 18 January 2011 - 11:50 PM
Basically there's a gigantic air force base in Arizona, USA where they've been storing and scrapping airplanes since before WWII. There are thousands and thousands of planes, sitting out there in the desert. Some of them are historic, like President Eisenhower's personal transport helicopter. Most of them are outdated (like the F111's) and are being kept for spare parts.
It seemed really, really surreal to have all of these "ghost planes" sitting out in the middle of nowhere.
Interestingly, this is where Australia gets some of the aircraft for it's air force from.
It seemed really, really surreal to have all of these "ghost planes" sitting out in the middle of nowhere.
Interestingly, this is where Australia gets some of the aircraft for it's air force from.
- #3
- 18 January 2011 - 11:56 PM
Awesome, I love places like that. There used to be one out where my grandparents lived, and it was basically unguarded so you could go and sit in the planes and stuff, which was awesome.
- #4
- 18 January 2011 - 11:57 PM
Sammy, on 18 January 2011 - 11:57 PM, said:
Awesome, I love places like that. There used to be one out where my grandparents lived, and it was basically unguarded so you could go and sit in the planes and stuff, which was awesome.
Wow! I envy you! Being able to walk up and sit in some of these planes... that just sounds amazing. Not something I imagine many people have done.
- #5
- 19 January 2011 - 12:00 AM
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- #7
- 19 January 2011 - 12:11 AM
- Treeless Druid
- Member
the wings generate lift, the engines generate thrust, you have flight
This post has been edited by Treeless Druid: 19 January 2011 - 02:31 AM
- #10
- 19 January 2011 - 02:31 AM
I've been to the air museum in Palm Springs. They have lots of World War II-era planes, like the B-17 Flying Fortress and the P-51 Mustang. Most of their planes are still flyable, and sometimes there are flight demonstrations.
- #13
- 19 January 2011 - 04:49 AM
- Seg
- Member
Smack dab in the middle of the Mojave desert.
Whole airplanes, junked airplanes, wrecked airplanes.
Airplane engines, severed cockpits, and hull skeletons that look like what you'd find after a crash landing.
Craaazy stuff, just lying in the middle of nowhere.
Whole airplanes, junked airplanes, wrecked airplanes.
Airplane engines, severed cockpits, and hull skeletons that look like what you'd find after a crash landing.
Craaazy stuff, just lying in the middle of nowhere.
- #14
- 19 January 2011 - 05:08 AM
- Kav
- Member
Lycan, on 19 January 2011 - 04:28 AM, said:
Right, I'll go build myself a plane then, weeeeeeeeee 
I made one once. It had paper wings to generate lift and my arm to generate thrust! It was amazing.
As I recall, the USA's official military goal was to have a workable plan to defeat the combined arms of the entire rest of the world. Looking at those airfields makes it seem somewhat plausible.
- #15
- 19 January 2011 - 08:12 AM
- Cloud
- Member
Eh, decommissioned aircraft, nothing special to me, I don't really get anything from seeing a load of old technology sitting sadly in the desert.
Unless it was spaceships, then I would find it surreal, but that's because I don't live in an age where such things are commonplace ^^
Unless it was spaceships, then I would find it surreal, but that's because I don't live in an age where such things are commonplace ^^
- #16
- 19 January 2011 - 11:01 AM
ILB, on 19 January 2011 - 11:17 AM, said:
This has nothing on my graveyard for paper planes. ^_^
hahaha awesome. If I put all the paper airplanes I ever made in a graveyard, there'd be 1000's of them!
On a related note - my garage kinda looks like this at the moment. I started building a bunch of planes and rockets towards the end of the summer but didn't have time to finish them before it got too cold to work out there. All the parts and things are all taped over and sitting on the workbench.
I guess this would be the Davis-Monton airforce base for a lego guy?
- #18
- 19 January 2011 - 11:41 PM
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